Medieval Man

This edition of Urban T. Holmes Jr.'s exploration of medieval man includes an introduction and has been edited by Holmes's son Urban T. Holmes III. This book is not an excessively theoretical text adhering tightly to the development of its argument. Instead it allows the reader to meet not only medieval man in his own understanding of himself but to meet the author as well. From the overview of Augustinian philosophy and the divine right of kings to the human ecology and the difference between man and his relationship to self and God as seen through the eyes of the clergy versus the perception of him by his fellow Holmes talks the reader through the three divisions of the middle ages and leaves him with a history that he can touch feel and inhabit.