Gives a comprehensive overview of the many traditions of medieval philosophy, over the full chronological range of the period\n\nDiscusses the importance of the religious and historical contexts of medieval philosophy\n\nShows how the philosophical traditions in the Middle Ages all stem from the Platonic schools of late antiquity and explains their evolution\n\nLooks at key phlosophical figures of the time such as the Latin writers Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Dante and Pomponazzi; the Arabic writers al-Farabi, Avicenna, ibn Tufayl, Averroes and Maimonides, and Gersonides, who wrote in Hebrew