Word: nominalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist...
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