"e;More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical texts by showing how the questions they ask can be placed in a modern context without loss or distortion.
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom.
Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals.
Wer in moralischen Extremsituationen bestimmte Mittel – Tötungen, Folter, Lüge, Korruption – verwendet, um seine Ziele zu erreichen, holt sich «schmutzige Hände».
The authors maintain that Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized the production and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion.
This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life.
Erste vollständige deutsche Übersetzung von Scotus' Auseinandersetzung mit dem Individuationsproblem, mit der er der Debatte, die sich von der Spätantike über Boethius, Ockham und Leibniz bis zur analytischen Philosophie zieht, eine entscheidende neue Richtung wies.
"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.
Charlemagne is probably the most well-known ruler of the Middle Ages: the most important offspring of the Carolingians, as a "constructor of Europe", he coined the times in the long-term and fascinated subsequent generations.
Without denying the real importance of the more 'traditional' tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint's objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged.
In seinem Hauptwerk De divisione naturae entwirft Eri(u)gena, der nach Augustinus und Anselm von Canterbury bedeutendste Philosoph und Theologe des frühen Mittelalters, auf platonischer und aristotelischer Basis sein originäres System, das ontologische, kosmologische und anthropologische Fragen umfassend erörtert.
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia).
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages.
In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition.
This book is a detailed but accessible treatment of the political thought of John of Salisbury, a twelfth-century author and educationalist who rose from a modest background to become Bishop of Chartres.
William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined.
Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the original.
The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe.
