Book excerpt: Rejecting the assertions that there was no philosophy in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, that philosophy started with the rediscovery of Aristotle in the 13th century, and that the early Middle Ages were Platonic and the late Aristotelian, Marenbon proposes that Aristotelian logical tradition helped shaped early medieval philosophy. But the labels, he warns, do not reflect even the complexity of the texts that remain. His 17 essays, reprinted from journals between 1980 and 2000, include a survey and a catalogue and cover the Carolingian period, Anselm and the early 12th century, Abelard, the 12th century, and approaches to Medieval philosophy. He includes five pages of corrigenda and addenda. c. Book News Inc.