Abstract

This admirable presentation to the contemporary, critically secular mind of the life and general mentality of a medieval genius recalls and deepens the instant success of Chesterton’s journalistic essay of thirty years ago. Prepared by an early study of St Thomas, which was praised by Grabmann as an ‘expression of his interior life’, this book was first published in Munich in 1958 and was based upon a series of twelve lectures. Fluently translated into English, the original spoken vivacity accentuates their purpose