George Sydney Brett History of Psychology

Annotation

First published in 2002. Written in 1921 this is Volume II of the A History of Psychology series and looks at Mediaeval and Early Modern Period. The first period of the history of psychology was described in a volume published in 1912 under the title, History of Psychology: Ancient and Patristic. The volumes now published comprise (a) the mediaeval and early modern period, forming this (second) volume, and (b) the nineteenth century, forming a third volume. takes in areas of theology, scholarship and tradition and progress of Doctrines in the fifth and six centuries that form the background of Mediaeval thought to Mediaeval doctrines and beginning of mediaeval psychology in the thirteenth century, ranging to the literacy activity of the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century and the emergence of British, Continental and German psychologists.