This study examines the scientific interests and rationality which find expression in the quadrivial sources of the 9th to 11th centuries, arguing on this basis for the existence of a 'discovery of nature' already prior to the 12th century. It focuses on the theme of 'time', exemplified by Abbo of Fleury's Computus, as well as Hermann of Reichenau's Epistola de quantitate mensis lunaris, Abbreviatio compoti and Prognostica. The systematic and historical background of the study is established through analysis of Alcuin's De vera philosophia, Bede's De temporum ratione and the...
This study examines the scientific interests and rationality which find expression in the quadrivial sources of the 9th to 11th centuries, arguing on ...
In modern linguistics one usually differentiates between content words or syncategorematic words and function words or categorematic words. But most people do not know that this differentiation does not have its roots in modern times. In fact it is one of the achievements of the Middle Ages. The tendency to classify words according their function in a sentence and as operators began to develop around the middle of the 12th century. Its probably most productive form was reached in tracts on syncategorematic words, which multiplied in the 13th century and constituted alongside the doctrine of...
In modern linguistics one usually differentiates between content words or syncategorematic words and function words or categorematic words. But most p...
Research on the medieval doctrine of the transcendentals is still characterized by one debate: its characteristic peculiarity vs. its structural correspondence to the modern concept of transcendentality. The present study on Peter Aureol's (+ 1322) doctrine of transcendentals offers a contribution to that discussion by delimiting from both directions: by developing Aureol's position in contrast to the contemporary position of a scotist-orientated, formalistic realism, it sheds light on the innovative traits in his doctrine. On the other hand, Aureol's logico-semantical revision of metaphysics...
Research on the medieval doctrine of the transcendentals is still characterized by one debate: its characteristic peculiarity vs. its structural corre...
Absolute Beginners adopts a variety of approaches to study the Absolute as the ultimate source of knowledge in medieval philosophy. From a historical perspective, it examines a forerunner of Spinoza's departure from the Absolute in the Ethics: the doctrine of God as a first object in the generation of knowledge, as formulated by Henry of Ghent (+1293) and Richard Conington (+1330). Methodologically, it offers a case-study in the construction of an historical object, calling into question the self-evident and spontaneous way in which elements in the history of philosophy - its concepts...
Absolute Beginners adopts a variety of approaches to study the Absolute as the ultimate source of knowledge in medieval philosophy. From a hist...
Complementing the growing list of editions and translations which have appeared in the series Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, this is the first critical edition of Adam of Bockenfield's commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on plants. The leading Arts master at Oxford in the middle decades of the thirteenth century, Adam crafted a comprehensive and highly organized commentary, which enjoyed wide circulation on the continent. Professor Long's introduction also explores the relationship between Adam's commentary and the gloss that was the established classroom text at Oxford.
Complementing the growing list of editions and translations which have appeared in the series Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, this is the first c...
Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically oriented study of medieval ontology against the background of the current metaphysical debate on the nature of material objects. Volume Two makes available to scholars one of the culminating points in the medieval reception of Aristotle's metaphysical thought by presenting the first critical edition of Book VII of Paul of Venice's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (1420-1424).
Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically...
Smilen Markov's monograph on the metaphysical synthesis of John Damascene depicts a paradox ontological structure: the single man, whose ontological position is conditioned by non-being, participates in the life of the Origin of being. The term 'historical interconnections' denotes the basic elements of Damascene's reception strategy through which he approaches the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the fathers. The structural transformation to which different epochs and cultural circles put Damascene's concepts reveals regularity in understanding the intellectual scope of the Palestinian...
Smilen Markov's monograph on the metaphysical synthesis of John Damascene depicts a paradox ontological structure: the single man, whose ontological p...