1st Edition

A History of Psychology Mediaeval and Early Modern Period Volume II

By Brett, George Sidney Copyright 2003
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. Written in 1921 this is Volume II of the A History of Psychology series and looks at Mediaeval and Early Modern Period. The first period of the history of psychology was described in a volume published in 1912 under the title, History of Psychology: Ancient and Patristic. The volumes now published comprise (a) the mediaeval and early modern period, forming this (second) volume, and (b) the nineteenth century, forming a third volume. takes in areas of theology, scholarship and tradition and progress of Doctrines in the fifth and six centuries that form the background of Mediaeval thought to Mediaeval doctrines and beginning of mediaeval psychology in the thirteenth century, ranging to the literacy activity of the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century and the emergence of British, Continental and German psychologists.

    Part 1 The Background of Mediæval Thought; Chapter 1 The Influence of Theology; Chapter 2 Scholarship and Tradition; Chapter 3 Progress of Doctrines in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries; Chapter 4 The Arabian Teachers; Part 2 Mediæval Doctrines; Chapter 5 The Groundwork; Chapter 6 The Beginnings of Mediæval Psychology; Chapter 7 The Thirteenth Century; Chapter 8 From the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 9 The Sixteenth Century; Part 3 From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 10 The Scientific Basis; Chapter 11 Systematic Thought: Descartes; Chapter 12 Systematic Thought— continued.; Chapter 13 Expansion of Psychology in the Seventeenth Century; Part 4 The Eighteenth Century; Chapter 14 British Psychologists; Chapter 15 Continental Empiricism; Chapter 16 The Beginning of German Psychology; Chapter 17 Influence and Applications of Psychology (1700–1800);

    Biography

    George Sidney Brett Professor of Philosophy in the University of Toronto.