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The History of Ideas in the Christian Middle Ages from the Fathers to Dante in American and Canadian Publications of the Years 1940-1952

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Gerhart B. Ladner
Gerhart B. Ladner*
Affiliation:
Fordham University
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The initial date chosen for this survey is the beginning of the publication of the Journal of the History of Ideas in 1940; the final date, 1952, is that of the appearance of A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World. These two events mark the two principal directions in which the method of the historical study of ideas has moved on this continent: first toward the analytical study of ‘unit ideas’ as defined by Arthur O. Lovejoy (especially in The Great Chain of Being, 1936), who is also the intellectual father of the Journal of the History of Ideas; secondly toward the synthetic ‘recording’ of the main currents and aspects of the ideological tradition of the West in its entirety, unity, and continuity, as aimed at by the Great Books program of Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and their collaborators.

Type
Bibliographical Survey
Information
Traditio , Volume 9 , 1953 , pp. 439 - 514
Copyright
Copyright © The Fordham University Press 

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1 So, for instance, ‘marriage’ is included in Section VI (Supranatural Order), Sub-Section Je (Sacraments), whereas it might have been dealt with in Section III (Man); studies on the ‘virtues’ are listed in part in Section III, in part in Section VI; and so forth.Google Scholar

2 In some instances, these cover more than one entry or include a listing supplementary to the entry commented upon, thus linking up with one another studies which are particularly closely related.Google Scholar

3 In some cases the issues for 1952 have not been available to the reviewer. — I wish to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Joseph F. O’Callaghan, Assistant in the History Department of Fordham University, for his help in proofreading and, above all, for his painstaking work in checking almost all titles and references.Google Scholar