Medieval Western philosophy

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More.

This collected volume is inspired by the work of Edward Halper and is historically focused with contributions from leading scholars in Ancient and Medieval philosophy.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism.

This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic.

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration.

Elionor of Sicily, 1325-1375: A Mediterranean Queen's Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows Elionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III.

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society's definition of what is acceptable.

This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism).

This book is an introduction to trinitarian theology as it developed from the late medieval period.

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege.

This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period.

This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense.

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives.

This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses.

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God.

This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suarez and Descartes.

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We inhabit extraordinary times: times in which we are acutely aware of the intensity of what revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon called "e;the glare of history's floodlights.

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400.

Leibniz Reinterpreted tackles head on the central idea in Leibniz's philosophy, namely that we live in the best of all possible worlds.