"On a en tout cas affaire à une somme qui regroupe de très nombreuses informations autrement dispersées, ce qui fait de ces deux volumes un fort utile instrument de travail." - in: Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique, 1990 "Dans cet ouvrage en deux volumes, M.L. Colish entend combler une véritable lacune." - P.-Ph. Druet, in: Les Études Classiques, 1991 "An enormous amount of information...in a clear and plain style...free of jargon or any fashionable view of intellectual history...By the sheer scale of her work, Colish succeeds in demonstrating the presence or absence of Stoic notions in authors who did much to shape the thought of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance." - A.A. Long, in: American Historical Review, 1987 "...une mine de renseignements, d'une érudition impressionnante..." - in: Bulletin Augustinien, 1985/86 "...stunningly learned, a mine of recondite information..." - in: Phronesis, 1986 "A history of this sort needed to be written; nothing comparable exists...Professor Colish has given us much." - John M. Rist, in: Journal of Theological Studies, 1987 "...a work of considerable erudition and impressive thoroughness." - Jill Kraye, in: Speculu, 1990 "...une somme considérable, aussi massive qu'accessible, dont aucun spécialiste de l'Antiquité païenne ou chrétienne ne pourra se passer." - Michel Spanneut, in: Cr.St., 1988 "...the scope and readability of C. makes her study a major achievement and a 'must' for library shelves." - Chris Emlyn-Jones, in: Greece and Rome, 1987 "...une magistrale introduction à l'étude du stoïcisme dans la littérature chrétienne (latine)." - E.M., in: Bulletin de théol. anc. et méd., 1992 "...une étude nourrie et ample sur toute la tradition de la philosophie stoïcienne..." - Alain Touwaide, in: Scriptorium
Volume one, Stoicism in classical Latin literature (09327-3), approaches its subject from the standpoint of intellectual history, examining how Stoicism was used by Roman thinkers, for what purposes, and how they correlated it with their other sources. Volume two, Stoicism in Christian Latin thought through the sixth century, (09328-1), focuses on how a particular Latin Christian author used Stoic ideas, to what ends, and how they were associated in his mind with the other doctrines he had to work with. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
