This book is the first in-depth, diachronic philosophical study of some of the most important thirteenth-century theories of faith, including those of Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Peter John Olivi, Henry of Ghent, Godfrey of Fontaines and John Duns Scotus.

Archaeologists and historians working in southern and northern Europe, explore diverse evidence — from landscape and burial archaeology to charters and chronicles — to discuss the relationships that constituted neighbourhoods and roles these played in the processes of state formation that can be observed in the peripheries of the Frankish world.

A study of how physicians and philosophers at the end of the Renaissance developed Galen's philosophical legacy and in doing so moved beyond accepted patterns and conventions in their reading of classical medical text.