 | The Medieval Culture of Disputation Subjects: Dialogue; Debates and debating; Religious disputations; Academic disputations; Scholasticism; Learning and scholarship; Civilization Medieval; Civilization Medieval; Through hundreds of published and unpublished sources, Alex J. Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader influence in the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages. Alex J. Novikoff teaches medieval history at Fordham University and is translator of The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century by Jean-Claude Schmitt, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
