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Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Preface 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction: The Problem, the Man, the Documents 16 The Idea of Reform as a Scholarly Problem 16 The Subject and Plan of the Book 18 The Career of Giles of Viterbo 19 Recent Studies on Giles of Viterbo 26 Writings Attributed to Giles of Viterbo 28 Printed 28 Manuscript 30 I. Principles of Concord and Orthodoxy 34 The Search for Concord 34 Giles of Viterbo's desire for concord 36 The pagans' access to truth: reason and revelation 38 Criticism of pagan authors 46 Zeal for Orthodoxy 48 Norms for orthodoxy 48 The problem of syncretism 49 Basic content of orthodoxy 50 Virtue and orthodoxy 51 Development of doctrine 51 The esoteric tradition 53 II. Several Renaissance Traditions 55 Paduan Aristotelianism 55 Nifo and Pomponazzi 56 The errors of the Paduan Peripatetics 58 Ficino's Platonism 64 The "Prisci Theologi" 70 The Ancient Christian Writers 73 Joachim of Flora 76 The Scholastics 77 III. Scripture and the Cabala 82 Giles's Preaching and Interest in Scripture 82 His View of the History of Scriptural Studies 87 The "Hebraica Veritas" 92 Giles's Attitude towards the Jews 97 The Cabala 99 Giles's
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- Author
- John W. O'Malley;
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004477124
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Christian, History, Christianity
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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