Description: This volume seeks to undertake a serious examination of the centrality of Eriugena's thought within the Carolingian context, taking into account his Irish heritage, his absorption of Greek thought and his place in Carolingian culture; of Eriugena as a medieval thinker, both his intellectual influences and his impact on later medieval
Brief description: Willemien Otten and Michael I. Allen are medieval colleagues at the University of Chicago, teaching respectively in the Divinity School and the Classics Department. They share a passion for Carolingian thought.