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Constantin Brunner (1862-1937) was a philosopher of considerable originality and importance to whom all too little attention has been paid until quite recently. This book presents an outline of Brunner's life and personality, then proceeds to relate his philosophy to that of Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Husserl, and Heidegger. There follows an analysis of Brunner's theory of knowledge, the framework of a complete philosophic system which, in many of Brunner's ideas, shows a similarity to that of his contemporary F.H. Bradley, often regarded as one of the greatest English philosophers

Life in the Middle Ages addresses many of the current concerns of medieval historians in one single volume. From an examination of the fundamental importance of family, to medieval monasticism and the monastery, to the manorial system and "courtly life", Goetz's text presents the first comprehensive depiction of life in the earlier Middle Ages from the perspective of everyday history.