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Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition  Ryan Szpiech Preface Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures  Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann Introduction Hic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research Revisited  Silke Ackermann Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya  Johannes Thomann The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary  Josefina Rodriguez Arribas Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal  Emilia Calvo From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe  Flora Vafea Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary  Petra G. Schmidl A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends  Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma Saphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus  Miguel Forcada Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments  Laura Fernández Fernández Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes  John Davis European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List  David A. King Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method  Taro Mimura Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks  Günther Oestmann Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona  Azucena Hernández A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes  Giorgio Strano Epilogue Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā  Flora Vafea Index

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Book SynopsisLa pensée sérielle : du Moyen Age aux Lumières, ensemble d’études réunies par Anne-Marie De Gendt et Alicia C. Montoya, se propose d’étudier le phénomène discursif de la série, du Moyen Age à la première modernité. La pensée sérielle : du Moyen Age aux Lumières, a collection of essays edited by Anne-Marie De Gendt and Alicia C. Montoya, proposes to study the discursive phenomenon of the series, from the Middle Ages to early modernity.Trade Review"[…] La Pensée sérielle is impressive in terms of both its overall scope and the detail evident in the individual essays. The editors are to be highly commended for the consistent excellence of this collection from start to finish. This is definitely not a collaborative work that presents just a few outstanding essays surrounded by others that seem more like filler. […] In the final analysis, De Gendt, Montoya, and the contributors have achieved considerable success in their effort to enrich our understanding of serial thinking and the attempt to organize reality from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.” - Beverly J. Evans, State University of New York at Geneseo USA, in Dalhousie French Studies Vol. 118, 2021 pp. 207-211Table of ContentsTable des matières Notices sur les auteurs Introduction  Anne-Marie De Gendt et Alicia C. Montoya Penser la sérialité, de l’Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle  Enrico Nuzzo Partie 1 Pensée sérielle au Moyen Age, de la tradition chrétienne aux listes profanes L’Origine du monde à l’épreuve de la série : variations sur l’hexaëmeron (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)  Emilie Deschellette Les Recueils de distinctions bibliques et leur structure : quelques réflexions  Iolanda Ventura Cithares à géométrie variable dans les exégèses médiévales des Psaumes ou comment la pensée sérielle crée l’instrument de musique  Jean-Marie Fritz  Musica et Natura dans les manuscrits enluminés des XIIIe et XIVe siècles : une pensée sérielle en images ?  Martine Clouzot Les Neuf Preux: vie d’une liste à la fin du Moyen Age  Anne Salamon Partie 2 Nouvelles organisations du savoir profane durant la première modernité Penser l’histoire littéraire au Moyen Age: les listes d’auteurs  Madeleine Jeay Art et Science : le défilé des animaux dans L’Arche de Noé sur le Mont Ararat, peinture de Simon De Myle (1570)  Paul J. Smith Faire l’inventaire des rues, quartiers et types. Conceptions sérielles de la ville dans les représentations de Madrid à la fin du XVIe siècle  Konstantin Mierau Pensée sérielle et pensée encyclopédique : l’esprit de combinaison et l’ordre naturel des idées selon Leibniz et les encyclopédistes  Claire Fauvergue Partie 3 Continuités : Vices et Vertus et l’ordre du monde, du Moyen Age aux Lumières « Venez les bénis ... venez les maudits » : Permanence des listes de vices et de leurs vertus contraires dans la morale occidentale (Moyen Age – première modernité)  Richard G. Newhauser Dame Vice ou Dame Sens? Correspondances sérielles au seuil de la Renaissance  Anne-Marie De Gendt La Pensée sérielle dans le théâtre de Calderón  Didier Souiller Multiplier les vices à l’époque des philosophes : « nature » ou géométrie (Loquet, Sade) ?  Alicia C. Montoya Index

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Book SynopsisScholars are finally fully appreciating the philosophical significance of early German Romanticism. Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy is a collection of original essays showcasing not only the philosophical achievements of romantic writers such as Schlegel and Novalis, but the sophistication, relevance, and influence of romanticism today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 The Copernican Turn in Early German Romanticism  Jane Kneller 2 Romantic Views of Language  Howard Pollack-Milgate 3 Religion and Early German Romanticism: The Finite and the Infinite  John H. Smith 4 The Romantic Poetry of Nature: An Antidote to German Idealism’s Eclipsing of Natural Beauty  Elizabeth Millán Brusslan 5 The Philosophy of Myth  Erwin Cook 6 Romantic Bildung and the Persistence of Teleology  Thomas Pfau 7 The Philosophical Relevance of Romantic Irony  Bärbel Frischmann 8 Literary Criticism in the Age of Critical Philosophy  Judith Norman 9 Fichte and the Early German Romantics  Susan-Judith Hoffmann 10 Hegel’s Critique of Romantic Irony  Jeffrey Reid 11 Hölderlin’s Path: On Sustaining Romanticism from Kant to Nietzsche  Karl Ameriks 12 Homesickness, Interdisciplinarity, and the Absolute: Heidegger’s Relation to Schlegel and Novalis  Ian Alexander Moore

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Book SynopsisThis is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.Trade Review“The volume especially shines by putting Suárez into fruitful and critical conversations with other well-known thinkers, mostly English, of the modern political canon like Machiavelli, Hobbes, James I, Bentham, and Locke. […] Overall, [it] offers the best recent treatment in English of Suárez’s political thought.” David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2020), pp. 244–255. “The articles give a remarkable overview of recent tendencies in the interpretation of this Jesuit thinker [and] offer valuable contributions to further illuminate the various traditions that shaped early modernity.” Bernhard Knorn, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 679–681.Table of ContentsPreface  Robert Aleksander Maryks Introducción  Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos Part 1: Metaphysics  1 Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts  Daniel Heider  2 Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?  Sydney Penner  3 Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics  Matthew Z. Vale  4 En contra del esencialismo: ente real y existencia en Suárez  Ángel Poncela González Part 2: Religion, Law, Society  5 Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law  Robert Fastiggi  6 Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism  S.J. Aaron Pidel  7 Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad  Julio Söchting Herrera  8 Settling Law: Francisco Suárez's Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts  Elisabeth Kincaid Part 3: Political Theories  9 Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales  Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa  10 Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology  Liam de los Reyes  11 Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder  Pablo Font Oporto  12 Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo I: el libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo  Pilar Pena Búa  13 Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?  Szilárd Tattay Part 4: Psychology  14 El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos  Giannina Burlando  15 Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate  Simone Guidi  16 Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 BGUC and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis  Paula Oliveira e Silva and João Rebalde  17 Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo  Nicolás Vivalda Part 5: Legacy  18 Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation  Catherine Sims Kuiper  19 La imposible teología política: gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez  Lorenzo Rustighi  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisPaul Thom’s book presents Kilwardby’s science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains the logic of genus and species through the notion of essence. Thom interprets this science as a formal logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardby’s logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century.Trade Review"Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279) was almost always of interest to medieval philosophers. This interest, however, has seldom been replicated by modern editorial initiatives, leaving our appreciation of the Oxford master’s intellectual profile incomplete, and perhaps uneven. We are aware of the different contributions that Kilwardby made to metaphysics and to the natural philosophy of his time, and we know that he was a dedicated and influential logician. We may even claim that Kilwardby was a fortunate logician, for he was one of the first scholars in the Latin West to read and to comment on the newly discovered books of Aristotle’s logic. This feature is greatly stressed in Paul Thom’s second book devoted exclusively to Kilwardby’s "science of logic", as described in the title.[...] Thom’s volume already stands as a great and inspiring work for the almost timeless interpretative potential he fairly attributes to Robert Kilwardby’s logic." Edit Anna Lukacs, in Speculum 96/1 , (January 2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations  Introduction  1Logic as Science and Art  1 The Evolution of Logic  2 The Art of Logic  3 Branches of the Science of Logic  4 The Science of Logic as Sermocinal  5The Science of Logic Distinguished from Other Content in the Organon  6 Kilwardby’s Writings on Logic  7 Aspects of Kilwardby’s Thought  8 Formalisation  2 The Logic of Terms: Categories and Complex Terms  1 The Categories  2 Complex Terms  3 Formal Language  4 Models  5 Theorems  3The Logic of Terms: Relations between Terms  1 The Predicables  2 Genus and Species  3 Differentia  4 Proprium  5 Accident  6 Formal Analysis  7 Formal Language  8 Models  9 Truth in a Model  10 Postulates  11 Theorems  4 The Logic of Statements: Assertoric Statements  1 Propositions and Statements  2 Assertoric Statements  3 Truth  4 Ut nunc assertorics  5 Simpliciter Assertorics  6 Natural simpliciter Assertorics  7 Opposition and Equipollence  8 Conversion  9 Non-Aristotelian Consequences among Assertorics  10 Formal Analysis  11 Theorems  5 The Logic of Statements: Necessity and Possibility Statements  1 Modal Statements  2 Necessity Statements  3 Possibility Statements  4 Formal Analysis  5 Formal Language  6 Models  7 Theorems  6 The Logic of Statements: Contingency Statements  1 Unampliated Contingencies  2 Kilwardby’s Examples  3 Ampliated Contingencies  4 Kilwardby’s Rules for the Truth of Ampliated Contingency Statements  5 Kilwardby’s Examples  6 Formal Analysis  7 Theorems  7 The Logic of Inferences: Consequences  1 Consequences According to the Relations between Terms  2 Formal Consequences  3Pure Rules of Consequence  4Rules of Consequence and Conversion  5Rules of Consequence and Opposition  6Rules of Consequence, Opposition and Repugnance  7Rules of Consequence and Possibility  8Rules of Consequence and Assertion  9Rules of Consequence and Denial  10Essential Consequences  11Essential Consequence and Essential Inseparability  12Syllogistic Consequences  13Formal Analysis  14Truth Conditions  15Postulates  16Theorems  8The Logic of Inferences: Assertoric Syllogisms  1Syllogistic Figures and Moods  2Reduction  3Perfection  4Being Said of All  5Families of Syllogism  6Principles, Validity, Perfectibility  7Mixed ut nunc / simpliciter Inferences  8Summary  9Formal Analysis  10Generative Rules  11Theorems  9The Logic of Inferences: Necessity Syllogisms  1Family 3. The LLL Family  2Principles for LL Premises  3Being Said of All  4Reduction  5Summary  6Family 4. The LXlL Family  7Principles for L / Xl Premises  8Being Said of All  9Inferences Related to the Perfect Syllogisms  10Reduction  11Summary  12Formal Analysis  13Theorems  10The Logic of Inferences: Contingency Syllogisms  1Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 3  2Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 4  3Family 5. The Q’ Q’ Q’ Family  4Family 6. The QXlQ Family  5Family 7. The QLQ Family  6Formal Analysis  11The Logic of Inferences: Non-perfectible Inferences  1xq Premises  2Realised Modals  3Formal Analysis  4Envoi  References  Modern Author Index  Subject Index  Ancient an Medieval Author Index

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Book SynopsisIn our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun. Contributors are Elena Băltuță, Daniel De Haan, Martin Klein, Andrew LaZella, Lukáš Lička, Mattia Mantovani, André Martin, Dominik Perler, Paolo Rubini, José Filipe Silva, Juhana Toivanen, and Rega Wood.Trade Review"The present volume continues many current lines of research in an innovative manner. [...] The contributions in the volume exemplify well the position of these discussions in the history of philosophy. They call for refined historical analysis but, in the hands of able scholars, provide innovative impulses even to contemporary discussions on the philosophy of perception". Pekka Kärkkäinen, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021). "L’ouvrage forme un beau recueil d’articles mettant en lumière des auteurs ou des oeuvres moins connus, ou renouvelant par leur approche des thèses plus répandues dans l’historiographie. Dans l’ensemble et dans le détail, les contributions, de par leur excellente qualité, apportent une contribution importante à l’état de la recherche sur la perception sensible au Moyen ge." Véronique Decaix, in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale XXII, 84,3 (2021)Table of Contents Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  2 Perceiving As: Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy  Juhana Toivanen  3 The Chameleonic Mind: The Activity versus the Actuality of Perception  José Filipe Silva  4 The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision  Lukáš Lička  5 Visio per sillogismum: Sensation and Cognition in 13th Century Theories of Vision  Mattia Mantovani  6 Spirituality and Perception in Medieval Aristotelian Natural Philosophy  Rega Wood  7 The Escape Artist: Robert Kilwardby on Objects as sine qua non Causes  Elena Băltuță  8 Rational Seeing: Thomas Aquinas on Human Perception  Dominik Perler  9 Aquinas on Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals  Daniel De Haan  10 “Accidental Perception” and “Cogitative Power” in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun  Paolo Rubini  11 Peter John Olivi on Perception, Attention, and the Soul’s Orientation towards the Body  André Martin  12 Caesar in Bronze: Duns Scotus on the Sensation of Singular Accidents  Andrew LaZella  13 John Buridan on the Singularity of Sense Perception  Martin Klein  Index of Names  Index of Concepts

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Book SynopsisAquinas’ theology can be understood only if one comes to grips with his metaphysics of being. The relevance of this perspective is exhibited in his treatment of topics like creation, goodness, happiness, truth, freedom of the will, the unity of the human being, prayer and providence, God’s personhood, divine love, God and violence, God’s unknowablility, the Incarnation, the Trinity, God’s existence, theological language and even laughter. This book endeavors to treat these questions in a clear and convincing language.Table of Contents  Abbreviations  1 Introduction  2 Divine Being as the Creator  3 God’s Eternity  4 Divine Being as the Good  5 Divine Being as Happiness  6 Divine Being as Truth Itself  7 Divine Being as the Ground of Freedom of the Will  8 The Unity of a Human Being  9 Prayer and Providence  10 Is God a Person?  11 God as Love  12 God and Violence  13 The Incarnation of Divine Being  14 Divine Being’s Unknowability  15 The Trinity  16 Divine Being as the Ground of Laughter  17 The Question of the Existence of Divine Being  18 How Can We Speak about God?   Appendix   Bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisThe issue of whether the writings of Thomas Aquinas show internal contradictions has not only stirred readers from his earliest, often critical, reception, but also led to the emergence of a literary genre that has crucial relevance to the history of medieval Thomism. Concordances were drawn up which listed Thomas’ contradictory statements and, in most cases, tried to disguise the appearance of contradiction by exegesis. But what was at stake in this interpretive endeavor? What role did the concordances play in shaping Thomism? What tensions did they reveal in the works of Thomas? The book aims to investigate these questions and puts the concordance of Peter of Bergamo (†1482), which represents the most important example of this type of text, at the center of the investigation. Contributors are Marieke Abram, Kent Emery, Jr., Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, Isabel Iribarren, Thomas Jeschke, Catherine König-Pralong, Mario Meliadò, Silvia Negri, Zornitsa Radeva, and Peter Walter.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of essays written by colleagues and friends in honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M., on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The contributing scholars endeavored to address significant issues within the academic areas in which Fr. Blastic has taught and published. Three essays are devoted to the Writings of Saint Francis; seven are dedicated to particular issues in Franciscan history, hagiography, spirituality and several texts; five deal specifically with women during the Middle Ages; and three final essays explore aspects of Franciscan theology and philosophy. Fr. Michael Blastic has taught at the Washington Theological Union, the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University and Siena College and served as a widely-respected retreat master. Contributors are Maria Pia Alberzoni, Luciano Bertazzo, O.F.M. Conv., Joshua C. Benson, Aaron Canty, Joseph Chinnici, O.F.M., Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., Jay M. Hammond, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., Timothy J. Johnson, Lezlie Knox, Pietro Maranesi, Steven J. McMichael, O.F.M. Conv., Benedikt Mertens, O.F.M., Catherine M. Mooney, Luigi Pellegrini, Michael Robson, and William J. Short, O.F.M.

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Book SynopsisFrom the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities. This genre is especially attractive as it deals with the most significant cultural and scientific innovations of the early modern period, such as the printing revolution and the development of new methods in philosophy, education and scholarly exchange via personal networks. Until recently, academic disputations have attracted comparatively little scholarly attention. This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive study of the early modern disputation culture, both through theoretical discussions and overviews, and numerous case studies that analyze particular features of disputations in various European regions.Trade Review“The text on the cover text of this collection of nearly a thousand pages explains that “from the 16th through the 18th century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities.” The three editors confirm this claim with thirty-two case studies by different authors, investigating the topic of early modern printed disputations.” “Research on disputations, occupying as it does a somewhat marginal place in historical scholarship, is rendered more accessible to a wider audience through the use of English especially because of the book’s concentration on some more peripheral regions of Europe. This should be applauded.” “ One can only hope that this avenue of research will be continued because there is still so much to discover, which, thanks to the progressing digitization of the sources, is now much easier.” Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 8.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction  Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel 2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks  Donald Felipe 3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild  Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke part 1: Britain 4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England  Lucy R. Nicholas 5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford  Tommi Alho 6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge  William M. Barton part 2: France 7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France  Laurence Brockliss 8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska  Véronique Meyer part 3: Germany, Austria and Switzerland 9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”  Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo 10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600  Ulrich Schlegelmilch 11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg  Sabine Schlegelmilch 12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795  Arvo Tering 13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations  Sari Kivistö 14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy  Gábor Förköli 15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651)  Joseph S. Freedman 16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism  Isabella Walser-Bürgler 17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran  Reinhold F. Glei 18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century  Jan-Hendryk de Boer 19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century  Stephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff 20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg  Raf Van Rooy 21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750  Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller 22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow)  Daria Barow-Vassilevitch 23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833)  Urs B. Leu part 4: Scandinavia and the Baltics 24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century  Meelis Friedenthal 25 Corollaries and Dissertations  Bo Lindberg 26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations  Peter Sjökvist 27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658)  Tua Korhonen 28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century  Janika Päll 29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier  Johanna Akujärvi 30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium  Kaarina Rein 31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747  Andreas Hellerstedt 32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations  Bernd Roling 33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium  Axel Hörstedt Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism, Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy. Literary qualities – tone, voice, persona, style, imagery – composed a core of their philosophizing, so that play and illusion, as well as rational certainty, formed pre-Enlightenment ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Before Enlightenment takes issue with the long-standing view of humanism’s philosophical mediocrity. It shows new features of Renaissance culture that help explain the origins not only of Enlightenment rationalists, but also of early modern novelists and essayists. If humanist writings promoted objective knowledge based on reason’s supremacy over emotion, they also showed awareness of one’s place and play in the world. The animal rationale is also the homo ludens.Trade Review“This fine book adds great depth and meaning to the study of Renaissance humanism. Kircher’s writing is crisp, his analyses are clear-eyed, and throughout he strikes a series of fine balances: between examinations of humanist classics with examinations of lesser known texts (often in manuscript); between Latin and vernacular; between Italian and ultramontane. Throughout, his writing is informed, but not dominated, by the history of continental philosophy.” Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University “The strength of this new intellectual history is that it is not only attuned to the philosophical contributions of the early humanists, but it also considers the indirectness of literary media—including letters, dialogues, translations, orations, novels and poetry–as integral to humanist philosophy.” Eva Plesnik, University of Toronto. In: Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40 (2022), pp. 449–451.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 The Riddles of Renaissance Humanism  1 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Early Modern Ideas  2 Finders and Seekers in Renaissance Humanism  3 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy  4 Literary Modalities of Humanist Expression and Overview of Chapters 2 Esse et videri: To Be and to Seem (Knowledge)  1 Piccolomini’s Dream  2 Quattrocento Hypocrisy: The Play of Appearances  3 Trecento Antecedents: Appearing and Seeming in Petrarch and Boccaccio  4 Walking Knowledge: The Transience and Accumulation of Perception  5 Sixteenth-Century Simulations 3 The Procession of Virtue (Ethics)  1 Reason as the Guide to Virtue: Finding the Moral Way  2 The Virtues of Pedagogy  3 The Morality of Rational Love  4 Fortune’s Challenge to Virtue  5 Laying Down the Moral Habits: Dialogues of the Dead  6 Fortune and Folly in the Sixteenth Century 4 The Beauty of the Whole (Metaphysics)  1 Poetica Theologia to Poetica Metaphysica  2 Prometheus the Light-Bringer: the Mediator between Humanity and Divinity  3 Approaching the Sun: the Upper Reaches of Humanist Conceptions of Reality  4 Chaos Theory: the Circulation of Atomism  5 The Limits of Vision Beneath the Earthly Veil  6 Ontological Rupture: Momus as Alter-Prometheus  7 The Swiftness of Time: Playing with Plutarch 5 The End of Humanism – and the Humanities?  1 Questions of Humanism and the Humanities  2 The End in Rabelais’s Cinq livres / Five Books  3 Bembo’s Walking Knowledge and the Limited Outlook  4 The Turnings of Self-Study as Humanism’s Physics and Metaphysics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolidate and transform a legacy of metaphysics developed in the German-speaking lands by Peripatetic authors (like Albert the Great, Ulrich of Strassburg, and Dietrich of Freiberg). This volume aims to provide a basis for further research and discussion of this unduly overlooked commentary, whose historical-philosophical importance as an attempt to refound Western metaphysics is beginning to be recognized. The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu). “[…] the volume displays various aspects of the richness hidden in this Commentary on Proclus: the contributions mentioned here are merely representative of such richness. Nonetheless, a desideratum of the research on Berthold remains a closer analysis of his polemical relations with his still unknown adversaries.” -Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2Trade Review"...the volume displays various aspects of the richness hidden in this Commentary on Proclus: the contributions mentioned here are merely representative of such richness." - Giuseppe Thomas VitaleTable of Contents1 Introduction  Dragos Calma and Evan King part 1: Sources 2 The Meaning of the Biblical Citations in the Expositio of Berthold of Moosburg  Paul D. Hellmeier OP 3 Avicebron (Solomon Ibn Gabirol) and Berthold of Moosburg on Essential Causality  Alessandra Beccarisi 4 Between Cologne and Oxford: Berthold of Moosburg and Thomas of York’s Sapientiale  Fiorella Retucci 5 Die Kontinuität der intellektuellen Tradition des Albertus Magnus: Berthold von Moosburgs Theorie des Intellekts  Henryk Anzulewicz 6 The Gods and Causality. On Aquinas’ Presence in Berthold’s Expositio  Ezequiel Ludueña 7 Berthold of Moosburg, Reader of Ulrich of Strassburg. On Natural Providence  Tommaso Ferro 8 Sapiens modernus: The Reception of Dietrich of Freiberg in Berthold of Moosburg  Evan King part 2: Doctrines 9 Berthold of Moosburg, the unum animae, and Deification  Loris Sturlese 10 Metaphysical Freedom. From Albert the Great to Berthold of Moosburg  Wouter Goris 11 Doppelte Providenz. Die Rezeption einer neuplatonischen Tradition bei Berthold von Moosburg  Theo Kobusch 12 Regna duo duorum. Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Providence and Fate  Alessandro Palazzo 13 Founding a Metaphysics of Light in Proclus’ Universe: Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Forms  Sylvain Roudaut part 3: Comparisons 14 Peter of Ireland and Berthold of Moosburg on First Being, First Life, and First Mind  Michael W. Dunne 15 Berthold of Moosburg, Nicholas of Cusa, and Marsilio Ficino as Historians of Philosophy  Stephen Gersh

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Book SynopsisNicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological and ethical texts that were undertaken at the request of King Charles V. This volume sheds light on the beginning of Oresme's scientific activity at the University of Paris (ca. 1340 – ca. 1350), a period of his intellectual career about which little is known. Over the course of this decade, Oresme lectured on many Aristotelian texts on natural philosophy, such as the Physics, On the Heavens, On generation and corruption, Meteorology, and On the Soul. Oresme's commentaries on Aristotle's Meteorology count among his only unpublished texts. This volume presents the first critical edition of books I-II.10 of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology. The edition is preceded by a historical and philological introduction that discusses the context of Oresme’s scientific career and examines the manuscript tradition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Strange Case of the Second Redaction of Oresme’s Questions on Meteorology The Manuscript Tradition of the Second Redaction of Nicole Oresme’s Questions on Meteorology: Manuscript Descriptions and a Study of Their Relationships  Manuscript Descriptions  Overview of the Manuscripts  Relationships between the Manuscripts: A Twofold Tradition  Location of the Questions in the Manuscripts Editorial Principles Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis Liber I  I.1 Utrum possibile sit de impressionibus meteorologicis habere simul scientiam et opinionem  I.2 Utrum impressiones meteorologice fiant secundum naturam inordinatiorem quam sit natura celi  I.3 Utrum iste mundus inferior sit continuus lationibus superioribus ut virtus eius inde gubernetur  I.4 Utrum, cessante motu celi, cessarent motus in isto mundo inferiori  I.5 Utrum eedem opiniones infinities reiterentur  I.6 Utrum elementa sint continue proportionalia ad invicem  I.7 Utrum quatuor elementa semper et immutabiliter habeant eandem proportionem ad invicem  I.8 Utrum motus celi sit causa calefactionis ignis in sua spera et etiam aeris superioris  I.9 Utrum lumen sit productivum caloris  I.10 Utrum contrarium circumstans suum contrarium fortificet ipsum  I.11 Utrum semper media regio aeris sit frigida  I.12 Utrum omnium impressionum meteorologicarum vapor et exalatio fuerit principium materiale  I.13 Utrum impressiones ignite, seu ille que fiunt per inflammationem, fiant naturaliter in aere  I.14 Utrum de nocte, serenitate existente, debeant apparere hyatus et voragines et sanguinei colores in celo  I.15 Utrum cometa sit de natura celi vel elementari  I.16 Utrum cometa sit exalatio calida et inflammata  I.17 Utrum motus comete sit naturalis vel violentus  I.18 Utrum comete significent mortem principum, siccitatem et ventos et motus terre  I.19 Utrum galaxia sit de natura celi vel de natura elementari Liber II  II.1 Utrum locus generationis pluvie sit media regio aeris  II.2 Utrum ros et pruina, nix et pluvia, sint eiusdem speciei  II.3 Utrum grandines magis debeant generari in hieme quam in autumno  II.4 Utrum aqua calida applicata frigori congelanti citius congeletur quam aqua frigida  II.5 Utrum rubedo matutina sit signum pluvie  II.6 Utrum caligo sit signum pluvie future  II.7 Utrum aqua naturaliter ascendat ad orificia fontium  II.8 Utrum aque fontium generentur in terra  II.9 Utrum mare sit perpetuum vel aliquando fuerit factum  II.10 Utrum mare debeat fluere et refluere Appendix Bibliography Index codicum Index fontium Index rerum Index nominum antiquorum Index nominum modernorum

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Book SynopsisThese essays present new readings of Anselm’s speculative and spiritual writings on topics including his relationship to Augustine, proofs for God’s existence, faith and reason, human freedom and the problem of evil, his spiritual meditations and prayers, as well as Anselm’s reception by 19th and 20th century thinkers, modernism, and feminism. These philosophical, theological and literary analyses bring fresh perspectives on Anselm both in his historical context and in dialogue with contemporary questions. Contributors are: Tomas Ekenberg, Riccardo Fredriga, Emery de Gaál, Kyle Philip Hubbard, Maggie Ann Labinski, Roberto Limonta, Ian Logan, Gavin Ortlund, M.B. Pranger, Gregory B. Sadler, Kevin Staley, Karen Sullivan, Eileen C. Sweeney, Michael Vendsel, Luca Vettorello, James Wetzel, and Kevin White. See inside the book.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains twenty essays on Italian Renaissance humanism, universities, and Jesuit education by one of its most distinguished living historians, Paul. F. Grendler. The first section of the book opens with defining Renaissance humanism, followed by explorations of biblical humanism and humanistic education in Venice. It concludes with essays on two pioneering historians of humanism, Georg Voigt and Paul Oskar Kristeller. The middle section discusses Italian universities, the sports played by university students, a famous law professor, and the controversy over the immortality of the soul. The last section analyzes Jesuit education: the culture of the Jesuit teacher, the philosophy curriculum, attitudes toward Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives, and the education of a cardinal. This volume collects Paul Grendler's most recent research (published and unpublished), offering to the reader a broad fresco on a complex and crucial age in the history of education.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction part 1 Humanism 1 Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools, and Universities  1 The Historiography of Humanism  2 Classical Learning and Criticism  3 Schools and Universities 2 Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism  1 Education and Career  2 Die Wiederbelebung  3 Influence  4 Conclusion 3 Italian Biblical Humanism and the Papacy 1515–1535  1 Four Christian Hebraists  2 Two Curial Cardinals  3 The Role of the Papacy  4 Conclusion 4 Education in the Republic of Venice  1 Medieval Background  2 The Renaissance Expansion of Schooling  3 Catholic Reformation Schooling  4 The Reforms of the 1770s  5 Jewish Schooling  6 Conclusion 5 The Humanistic Gymnasium from Humboldt to Kristeller  1 Bildung and the Humanistic Gymnasium  2 Paul Oskar Kristeller at the Mommsen Gymnasium  3 Conclusion part 2 Universities 6 Paul Oskar Kristeller on Renaissance Universities  1 Early Interest in Universities  2 Publications 1945 through 1956  3 A Book on the “Intellectual History of the Italian Universities to 1600”  4 “The Curriculum of the Italian Universities”  5 Debates with Other Scholars  6 Theology in Italian Universities  7 The University of Heidelberg  8 Other Studies  9 Conclusion 7 Studies on the Italian Universities of the Renaissance An Unpublished Work of Paul Oskar Kristeller. Introduced and Edited by Paul F. Grendler 8 Italian Universities and War 1494–1630  1 The University of Pavia and War  2 The Movements of Professors and Students Because of War  3 Conclusion 9 Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua 10 Fencing, Playing Ball, and Dancing in Italian Renaissance Universities  1 The Students  2 Lo scolare of Annibale Roero  3 Fencing  4 Playing Ball  5 Dancing  6 Conclusion 11 On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Italian Universities  1 Conclusion 12 Giacomo Antonio Marta: Antipapal Lawyer and English Spy 1609–1618  1 Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction  2 A Spy for James I  3 The Supplicatio ad Imperatorem … Contra Paulum Quintum  4 Conclusion 13 Apostolici Regiminis Sollicitudo: Italian Preachers Defend the Immortality of the Soul  1 Apostolici Regiminis Sollicitudo  2 The Italian University Response  3 Preachers Against False Philosophy: Cornelio Musso  4 Franceschino Visdomini and Girolamo Seripando  5 Francesco Panigarola  6 Conclusion part 3 Jesuit Education 14 Laínez and the Schools in Europe  1 Before 1556  2 Growth of the Schools  3 The Teacher Shortage  4 The Schools Are the Most Important Ministry  5 The Formula for Accepting Colleges  6 Other Actions  7 Conclusion 15 Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities  1 The Development of the Philosophical Cursus  2 Teachers and Schools  3 Conflicts with Universities 16 The Culture of the Jesuit Teacher 1548–1773  1 All Jesuits Will Teach  2 Leader and Manager of the Classroom  3 The Culture of Competition  4 Jesuit Civic Humanism  5 Teacher of the Elite  6 The Jesuit Teacher Cares for Poor and Weak Students  7 Conclusion 17 The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Juan Luis Vives  1 Ignatius of Loyola and Vives  2 After Ignatius  3 Conclusion 18 The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Erasmus  1 Should Jesuit Schools Teach the Works of Erasmus?  2 The Generalate of Diego Laínez 1556–1565  3 After the Indexes  4 The Final Destination of the Works of Erasmus  5 Conclusion 19 Fifteenth-Century Catechesis, the Schools of Christian Doctrine, and the Jesuits  1 Youth Confraternities Teaching Christian Doctrine in the Fifteenth Century  2 Fifteenth-Century Catechisms  3 The Milanese Schools of Christian Doctrine  4 The Missing Jesuits  5 Jesuit Catechesis  6 Conclusion 20 The Jesuit Education of Benedetto Pamphilj at the Collegio Romano Index 495

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage propose une approche globale des reconstructions érudites et des utilisations polémiques de la philosophie de la Renaissance dans la France du XIXe siècle en centrant l’attention sur une relecture politique de la pratique historiographique à l’époque de Victor Cousin. This book offers a comprehensive approach to scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of Renaissance philosophy in nineteenth-century France by focusing on the political implications of historiographical practice in Victor Cousin’s time.Table of ContentsNotices biographiques 1 Écrire l’histoire de la philosophie de la Renaissance à l’époque de Victor Cousin : acteurs intellectuels, enjeux idéologiques et institutionnels  Mario Meliadò Partie 1: Vues d’ensemble et perspectives transdisciplinaires 2 La Renaissance dans l’histoire. L’historiographie philosophique française du XIXe siècle  Catherine König-Pralong 3 Deux portraits de la Renaissance en compétition : l’Encyclopédie nouvelle (1836–1843) et le Dictionnaire des sciences philosophiques (1844–1852)  Gregorio Piaia Partie 2: Figures historiographiques, réseaux intellectuels et politiques 4 Charles Waddington : de la thèse sur Ramus aux discours sur la philosophie de la Renaissance  Dominique Couzinet 5 Négocier la coupure. La légende spiritualiste de Giordano Bruno au cœur de la transaction entre philosophie et théologie  Delphine Antoine-Mahut 6 Le cas Vanini et l’historiographie philosophique sur la Renaissance à l’école de Victor Cousin  Mario Meliadò 7 Donner et recevoir la modernité : Vico entre la France et l’Italie  Rocco Rubini 8 Glisson-Leibniz-Reid-Maine de Biran : la force de la vie et sa trajectoire dans l’Histoire de la philosophie de Victor Cousin  Guido Giglioni Partie 3: Documents 9 Les lettres de Christian Bartholmèss à Victor Cousin (1846–1856)  Mario Meliadò 10 Les lettres de Charles Waddington à Victor Cousin (1844–1863)  Dominique Couzinet 11 Victor Cousin et la Renaissance. Annexe photographique  Luc Courtaux, Dominique Couzinet and Mario Meliadò Bibliographie générale Index des noms

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Book SynopsisThe first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this book offers a contemporary critical assessment on this medieval Franciscan poet of the thirteenth century. Combining philological analyses with thematic studies and philosophical and theological interpretations of the original contents and style of Iacopone’s poetry, the collection considers a wide range of topics, from music to prayer and performance, mysticism, asceticism, ineffability, Mariology, art, poverty, and the challenges of translation. It is a major contribution to the understanding of Iacopone’s laude in the 21st century. Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Alvaro Cacciotti, Nicolò Crisafi, Anne-Gaëlle Cuif, Federica Franzè, Alexander J.B. Hampton, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Matteo Leonardi, Brian K. Reynolds, Oana Sălișteanu, Samia Tawwab, Alessandro Vettori, Carlo Zacchetti, and Estelle Zunino.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inside the Hood of the Mendicant: Iacopone’s Hidden Face PART 1: Style, Rhetoric, Music, and the Construction of Poetic Identity 1 Poetry as Prayer in Iacopone’s Laude  Erminia Ardissino 2 Medieval Self-Fashioning: Performances of Personality and Authority in Iacopone and Dante  Nicolò Crisafi 3 “O novo canto, c’ài morto el planto de l’omo enfermato!”: The Musical Spirit of Iacopone’s Laudario and the Development of a New Italian Melody  Federica Franzè 4 Educating, Enlightening, Edifying: Iacopone Da Todi’s Intellectual Journey  Estelle Zunino PART 2: Translation, Transformation, Adaptation 5 Ineffability and the Urgent Need to Tell: Comparing Four Twentieth-Century Translations of Laudas  Magdalena Maria Kubas 6 Translating Iacopone da Todi in Romanian: a Noble Journey toward and inward amor d’esmesuranza  Oana Sali?teanu PART 3: The Language of Mysticism, Asceticism, and Marian Devotion 7 “Prindi da me dolcezza …”: Sweetness as a Principle of Asceticism and Salvation in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Anne-Gaëlle Cuif 8 Rhythm and Poetic Mysticism in the Laude of Iacopone Da Todi  Alexander J. B. Hampton 9 “Sapor de Sapïenza”: Spiritual Senses and Body of the Spirit in Iacopone’s Laude  Matteo Leonardi 10 The Marian Laude of Iacopone da Todi: Tradition and Renewal  Brian K. Reynolds 11 Victorine Traces in Iacopone’s Laude  Carlo Zacchetti PART 4: The Many Forms of Franciscanism 12 Francis of Assisi and Franciscanism in the Laudario of Iacopone da Todi  Alvaro Cacciotti 13 Image and Performance in Iacopone’s Laudario: the Case of Lauda 78, “Un arbore è da Deo plantato”  Samia Tawwab 14 In Sickness and in Health: Iacopone’s Mystical Marriage through Malady  Alessandro Vettori Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a critical edition of Nikola Vitov Gučetić’s (1549–1610) Commentary on the First Book of Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’, with an introductory study and supplementary materials. The purpose of the edition is to provide a clear Latin text for scholars and students of the humanities, especially researchers in Renaissance rhetoric and philosophy. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of the history and culture of Dubrovnik. Gučetić’s Commentary gives a precious glimpse into the transformative character of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance, demonstrating the profound influence this ancient text had not only on leading Humanist scholars and renowned Renaissance philosophers, but also on lesser-known thinkers who depended on the art of persuasion in their political and judicial careers.

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview  Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli 2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius  Elena Nicoli 3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology  Elisabeth Moreau 4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV  Craig Martin 5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573)  Christoph Lüthy 6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus  Jole Shackelford 7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno  Leen Spruit 8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist  Sandra Plastina 9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus  Kuni Sakamoto 10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner  Stephen Clucas 11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius  William R. Newman Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Paraclete was founded in 1129. Out of necessity to find a new place to shelter a group of nuns, this female community was created by Peter Abelard (1079–1142) for Heloise of Argenteuil (1090–1164). Varieties of the Self shows how this community was dependent on a network of monasteries, while also representing a formative driving force in the twelfth-century reform, the period of flourishing to which it clearly belonged. The anthropological approach connects different works written by Peter Abelard (hymns, life-rules, letters, biblical commentaries) to views on the female self. What is the perspective on identity, sacrifice, and intentionality within these sources, and how do views on pollution, purity, and sacredness reflect on ethics of body and soul?Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Anthropology and the Idea of the Paraclete  1 About Rules and Individual Life  2 The Foundation of the Paraclete and the Beginning of Faith  3 The Myth of Institutions: About Systems and Collections  4 Exemplum’s Perplexity 3 Diptych I: Bringing Abelard Home  1 Living Together, or the Creation of the Monastic Myth  2 When Earth and Heaven Meet  3 Is Contempt for the World Possible?  4 Peter the Venerable’s Compassion  5 The Anthropology of Grace  6 Abelard’s Last Years  7 The Illusion of Permanence  8 The Mental Architecture of the Paraclete  9 Is Religion a Category? 4 Diptych II: Architecture of Songs  1 Time, Space, and the Self in the Paraclete  2 God hors jeu  3 Collection and Chaos: The Paraclete Hymns  4 A Changing Light  5 Mary Magdalene’s Stones  6 Jephthah’s Daughter  7 The Child and the Stick, or Mirroring Measures  8 Epilogue 5 Conclusion Appendix  Peter the Venerable, Letter 115  Heloise of Argenteuil, Letter 167  Selected Hymns from the Hymnarius Paraclitensis, Composed by Peter Abelard Bibiliography Index

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Book SynopsisNicolas d’Autrécourt (c. 1298-1369) est l’un des penseurs les plus audacieux de l’histoire de la philosophie, et Zénon Kaluza, qui lui a consacré près de trente ans d’études, nous le fait découvrir par ses sources, ses doctrines et ses manuscrits. Ce livre propose notamment des analyses sur des thèmes importants (tels que la perception, la causalité finale, les catégories ou l’éternité du monde) ainsi qu’une nouvelle édition des Prologues de l’Exigit ordo, enrichie d’un commentaire suivi. Les études—dont certaines sont parues mais difficiles d’accès et d’autres sont inédites—dévoilent la figure d’un philosophe désirant de libérer la philosophie des contraintes institutionnelles et de critiquer la métaphysique d’Aristote, au risque de bouleverser les traditions, de contredire les dogmes de la foi et se voir condamner par les autorités théologiques de son temps. Nicolas d'Autrécourt (c. 1298-1369) is one of the most daring thinkers in the history of philosophy, and Zénon Kaluza, who has devoted to him nearly thirty years of study, presents him to us through his sources, his doctrines and his manuscripts. The reader will find studies on some of the most relevant philosophical doctrines (such as perception, the final causality, the categories and the eternity of the world) as well as a new edition of the Prologues of the Exigit ordo, enriched with a running commentary. The texts gathered here—some of which have been published previously but are difficult to access and others which have been unpublished until now—reveal a philosopher who wished to free philosophy from institutional constraints and dared to criticize Aristotle's metaphysics, at the risk of upsetting traditions and contradicting the dogmas of the faith, and who was condemned by the theological authorities of his time.Table of ContentsPrologue Partie 1: Une métaphysique libre 1 Nicolas d’Autrécourt et la tradition 2 Nicolas d’Autrécourt critique d’Aristote 3 Nicolas d’Autrécourt interprète du réalisme de Platon 4 Roger Bacon inspirateur inconnu de Nicolas d’Autrécourt ? Le cas des Communia mathematica Partie 2: Penser le monde des atomes 5 Les catégories dans l’Exigit ordo. Étude de l’ontologie formelle de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 6 Voir : la clarté de la connaissance chez Nicolas d’Autrécourt 7 La convenance et son rôle dans la pensée de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 8 La finalité de la nature selon Nicolas d’Autrécourt 9 La récompense dans les cieux. Remarques sur l’eschatologie de Nicolas d’Autrécourt 10 Éternité du monde et incorruptibilité des choses dans l’Exigit ordo de Nicolas d’Autrécourt Partie 3: Édition partielle de l’Exigit ordo 11 Les Prologues de l’Exigit ordo : édition et commentaire Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.Table of ContentsContents Foreword  Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav Notes on Contributors Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism? 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism  Steven Harvey 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism  Giovanni Licata Part 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex 3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?  Mercedes Rubio 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides  Reimund Leicht 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of Marseille  David Lemler 6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide  Yonatan Shemesh Part 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia  Daniel J. Lasker 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics  Shalom Sadik 9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy  Shira Weiss Part 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes  Yoav Meyrav 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?  Resianne Fontaine 12 Falaquera the Averroist  Yair Shiffman 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach  Bakinaz Abdalla 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect  Alexander Green 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist  Esti Eisenmann 16 Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes  Warren Zev Harvey 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements”  Elisa Coda Part 5: Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes  Yehuda Halper 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics  Francesca Gorgoni 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36  Michael Engel Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 14th century, hypotheses about a lying God, deceived Christ, and the changeability of the past circulated. At the new University of Vienna, three German masters attempted in their lectures on the Old Testament to counter them. Their commentaries are the longest, the most influential, and perhaps even the most inspiring commentaries on the Bible written at Vienna. This book offers a glimpse into their most unusual ideas, apocalyptic expectations, heretics, toads, and devils; assessments of Amalric of Bena, Moshe Taku, and Petrarch; and, last, but not least, the search for an immovable truth that fills their pages.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1 The Bible at the University of Vienna  2 The complexe significabile: Adam Wodeham  3 Syllogisms and the Communication of Properties: Robert Holcot  4 Antecedent Necessity: Thomas Bradwardine  5 The University of Vienna in Its Replies 1 Henry Totting of Oyta’s Commentary on Psalms 1–50  1 Henry Totting of Oyta  2 General Features of Divine Cognition  3 Psalm 34:28: the Common Viennese Project  4 The Ultimate Answer  5 Conclusion 2 Henry of Langenstein’s Commentary on Genesis  1 Henry of Langenstein  2 Metaphysics  3 Logic  4 Conclusion 3 Lambert of Geldern’s Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets  1 Lambert of Geldern  2 Prophets and Divine Lies  3 The Non-degree of Viennese Theology  4 Conclusion Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume contains articles based on papers delivered at the two international conferences organized as part of the Between Two Worlds research project in 2017 and 2019. Obadiah Sforno was an influential Jewish thinker of sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance, whose religious and exegetical authority has had an enduring legacy. The collected essays offer an unprecedented and much desired overview of his life and thought with an emphasis on the neglected philosophical dimension of his oeuvre, as seen in both his biblical commentaries and his sole philosophical treatise Light of the Nations.Table of ContentsContents Prelude Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance  Giuseppe Veltri Part 1: Biography 2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and Charity  Andrew Berns 3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah Sforno  Saverio Campanini Part 2: Philosophy 4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the Intellect  Symon Foren 5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of Particulars  Steven Harvey 6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the World  Giada Coppola 7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio Dei  Warren Zev Harvey 8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin Priority  Florian Dunklau Part 3: Exegesis 9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia Sforno  Jean-Pierre Rothschild 10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical Works  Moshe Kravetz Part 4: Environment and Reception 11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century Bologna  Guido Bartolucci 12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms Commentary  Yael Sela Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, written by well-known students of Étienne Gilson and especially dedicated to Armand A. Maurer, helps inaugurate a long-overdue special series in philosophy honoring Gilson’s legendary scholarship. It presents wide-ranging expositions of Thomist realism in the tradition of Gilsonian humanism covering themes related to philosophy in general, historical method, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and politics.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Curtis L. Hancock Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgments ONE Jorge J.E. GRACIA: The Enlightening Gloss: Gilson and the History of Philosophy TWO Richard GERAGHTY: The Practical Nature of Moral Philosophy THREE Peter A. REDPATH: Philosophy’s Non-Systematic Nature FOUR Robert A. DELFINO: The Beauty of Wisdom: A Tribute to Armand A. Maurer FIVE Desmond J. FITZGERALD: Étienne Gilson and the San Francisco Conference SIX Raymond DENNEHY: Maritain’s Reply to Gilson’s Rejection of Critical Realism SEVEN Joseph J. CALIFANO: On the Nature of Being and Division of Speculative Sciences EIGHT Francesca MURPHY: Gilson and Maritain: Battle Over The Beautiful NINE Richard J. FAFARA: Gilson and Gouhier: Approaches to Malebranche TEN James MAROOSIS: Poinsot, Peirce, and Pegis: Knowing as a Way of Being ELEVEN James V. SCHALL: Possessed of Both a Reason and a Revelation About the Contributors Illustrations Index of Works and Professional Appearances Index of Authors, Editors, and Translators Index of Names and Subjects

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