Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum; Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love-Lyric

Two smart volumes of mid-century medieval studies, pairing Karl Barth"s theological reading of Anselm with Peter Dronke"s influential survey of European love-lyric traditions, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.An appealing pairing of mid-twentieth-century scholarship on medieval thought and culture, compromising: Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Anselm"s Proof of the Existence of God in the Context of his Theological Scheme by Karl Barth (1960). This volume offers an examination of Anselm"s ontological argument within the wider architecture of his theology, framing faith"s search for understanding as a disciplined intellectual act. Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love-Lyric by Peter Dronke Volume II (1966). Volume II only. An exploration of lyric traditions in Latin and the vernacular, tracing courtly forms, poetic conventions, and cultural transmission across medieval Europe. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, very smart. Slight age toning to extremities of "Anselm" with one or two very minor handling marks. The odd spot to endpapers of "Anselm." Dust wrapper, smart. Slight age toning to extremities. The odd minor handling mark and spot. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in one or two very slight closed tears to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed.…