God's Philosophers

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science is a book written by British historian of science James Hannam and published in 2009 (UK: Icon Books).

The book challenges the view that “there was no science worth mentioning in the Middle Ages … [and] that the Church held back what meagre advances were made”.[1] Hannam rebuts a number of modern myths about Medieval Christianity to argue that "medieval scholars overturned the false wisdom of ancient Greece to lay the foundations of modern science."[2]

The US edition of the book was published in 2011 by Regnery Press under the title The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution.

Awards and nominations

The book was shortlisted in 2010 for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.[3] In 2011 it was shortlisted for the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science.[4]

See also

References
  1. Dan Jones, The New Age of Enlightenment, review of James Hannam, God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science, in The Spectator, 15 August 2009.
  2. Book website
  3. "Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010 shortlist announced | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  4. bshs-admin (2011-08-22). "2011 BSHS Dingle Prize winner announced". BSHS. Retrieved 2022-04-04.


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