Introduction
I. Origins: the church fathers
1. Sources
2. Augustine of Hippo
3. Before Augustine
4. Between Augustine and Gregory
5. Gregory the Great
II. Consolidation: the early middle ages
1. Eph 1:10
2. Luke 15:8-10
3. Luke 2:14
4. Mark 16:1-7
5. Rev 11:13
6. The Missal
7. Canon law
8. The tithe
9. The number of the saved
10. Other references
III. Crisis: the eleventh and twelfth centuries
1. Anselm of Canterbury
2. The school of Laon
3. Rupert of Deutz
4. Honorius of Autun
IV. Decline: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
1. Authors from the monastic tradition
2. Hugh of St. Victor
3. Summa sententiarum
4. Alcher of Clairvaux
5. Peter Lombard
6. The influence of Lombard's Sententiae
7. Albert the Great
8. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio
9. Thomas Aquinas
Conclusion
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1. Abbreviations
2. Electronic sources
3. Primary sources
4. Secondary literature Index of proper names
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