JOHN OF SALISBURY’S “SUMMA SCIENTIAE”: AUTHOR AND THE TEXTS IN CULTURE OF THE “RENAISSANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY”

Abstract

The paper is dedicated on detail consideration of two types of John of Salisbury’s works (1115/1120-1180) - the big one including treatises “Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum”, “Policraticus”, “Metalogicon” and the small one, which involves two "Lifes" - st.Anselm the Cantuarian and Thomas Backet and also papers, which might not be written by John of Salisbury.The purpose of this work is to show the same conception of these various in style and range of problems works reflecting profound worldview principles of an outstanding intellectual and writer of the twelfth century.

Keywords

• john of salisbury
• renaissance of the twelfth century
• “entheticus de dogmate philosophorum”
• “policraticus”
• “metalogicon”