'A monumental history . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive.' NEW STATESMAN 'We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Frederick Copleston was Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at London University. This eleven-volume work is one of the most remarkable single-handed scholarly enterprises of modern times. Brimming with detail and enthusiasm, A History of Philosophy gives an accessible account of philosophers from all eras and explains their works in relation to other philosophers. Each volume is an ideal guide for students studying specific eras and as a set offers a complete and unrivalled overview of the entire western philosophical tradition. Volume 3 Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy This third volume of Copleston's A History of Philosophy covers the fourteenth to the early-seventeenth centuries.

In this important period there was the breaking of the link between philosophy and theology - beginning with the work of Ockham. As the growth of empirical science led to the philosophical explosion of the renaissance, the discovery and adventure in the physical world was reflected by the changes in philosophy. Bacon Böhme Bruno Machiavelli More Nicholas of Cusa Ockham Suárez.