This study charts the continuing influence of medieval scholastic thought in Renaissance civilization. In the three essays, Paul Oskar Kristellar illustrates the way medieval ideas and issues remained active in Renaissance philosophy, theology, literature and in education, both secular and religious. In his first essay, Kristeller explains the conflicts in various Renaissance literatures - between rigorous scholastic writings and eloquent humanist ones, between texts written in Latin and those in the vernacular - by appealing to a notion of literary genre which aligns different types of text with distinct audiences. The second essay considers the influence of St Thomas Aquinas during the Italian Renaissance, showing that he was widely read and respected by major humanists, and contributed to the debates over the distinction between philosophy and theology and the relative importance of the intellect and the will. The final essay suggests that monks and friars play a more important role in Renaissance thought than is usually realized. They made monastic libraries available to humanist scholars, and actively engaged in the intellectual disputes of their time.

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A collection of second-hand antique and vintage books. The inventory focuses on Church history; Reformation History; Renaissance History; History of THeology; History of the Middle Ages; Medieval Education and Learning; History of spirituality in the Middle Ages; Monastic History of the Middle Ages; Women's Studies, Middle Ages; History of the Netherlands; and Dutch Religious Literature of the Middle Ages. Also available new items: (multiple copies) They Farmed Well. The Dutch-Canadian Agricultural Community in Nova Scotia, 1945-1995 G. H. Gerrits. Kentville, N.S.: Vinland Press, 1996. 183 pp. Bibliography. Illustrated Examines the reasons for emigrating to Nova Scotia; various aspects of the immigrants? background in the Netherlands; government and other programs available to them in Nova Scotia to purchase farms; their contributions to agriculture in Nova Scotia. Immigration, Settlement, and the Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, c. 1950 ? c. 1965 G. H. Gerrits. Kentville, N.S.: Vinland Press, 2015. 310 pp. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated When Reformed Protestants from the Netherlands first settled in the Maritimes around 1950, the American-based Christian Reformed Church, which has Dutch roots, sent so-called home missionaries and fieldmen to the Maritimes to organize the Reformed Protestants into congregations. The financial assistance offered to the immigrant farmers ? and the bulk of them were farmers ? by the government of Nova Scotia, in particular, made this province an attractive place to settle and also drew Dutch immigrant farmers from other parts of Canada, especially Ontario after they had settled there first.

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