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- Medieval Philosophy, History of Science, Ethics, History of Medicine, Epicureanism, Epicurus, and 86 moreAristotle, History of Atomism, Epicurus (Philosophy), Lucretius, Renaissance Philosophy, Italian Humanism, Medieval Studies, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval History, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Literature, History, Philosophy, Avicenna, Medieval Italy, Italian Studies, Italian Renaissance literature, Renaissance, Renaissance literature, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Philosophie, Humanism, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Medical Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Medieval Science, Medieval Medicine, William Ockham, John Buridan, Dante Studies, Avicenna Latinus, Averroes, Averroism, Latin Averroism, Virtue Ethics, Guido Cavalcanti, Medieval Italian Literature, Incantations, Scholastic Philosophy, John of Jandun, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Amor Hereos, Dino Del Garbo, Cultural History, History of Ideas, Italian Literature, Philosophy Of Religion, Continental Philosophy, Modernity, Philosophies of Human Nature, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Medecine, Poetry, Epicureanism and Stoicism, Epicuro, Lucretius, De rerum natura, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Italy, Early Modern Italy, Littérature italienne, Literature, Historia Medieval, Aristotle's Ethics, Aristotelianism, Materialism, Heresy and Inquisition, Atheism, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Renaissance History, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Moral Philosophy, History of Mathematics, Intellectual History, and European Historyedit
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Textes réunis par Joël Biard et Aurélien Robert. http://bit.ly/2HXJYE0 J. Biard - A. Robert, Introduction. A. A. Robiglio, Le philosophe comme personnage littéraire: Blaise Pelacani de Parme dans le Paradiso degli Alberti – A.... more
Textes réunis par Joël Biard et Aurélien Robert.
http://bit.ly/2HXJYE0
J. Biard - A. Robert, Introduction. A. A. Robiglio, Le philosophe comme personnage littéraire: Blaise Pelacani de Parme dans le Paradiso degli Alberti – A. Robert, L’éthique de Blaise de Parme dans ses Questions sur la Physique – C. Grellard, Une histoire naturelle des religions: Blaise de Parme, les astres et les sectes – J. Biard, Rationalismes régionaux dans la philosophie médiévale tardive: le cas de Blaise de Parme – G. Federici Vescovini, Blaise de Parme et l’intelligibilité mathématique – D. A. Di Liscia, Biagio Pelacani da Parma’s Geometrisation of Latitudes and the Problems of the Mean Degree Theorem – S. Rommevaux-Tani, Les règles du mouvement dans la seconde rédaction des Questions sur la Physique de Blaise de Parme – M. Roques, Blaise de Parme et la quantité – N. Weill-Parot, Une position originale? Le contact entre le moteur et le mû dans les Quaestiones disputatae super octo libros Physicorum de Blaise de Parme – F. Seller, La détermination des positions des astres dans l’optique de Blaise de Parme – V. Sorge, Sens externes et sens internes chez Blaise de Parme – J. F. Silva, Blasius of Parma on the Activity of Sense. Bibliographie. Index des noms de personnes et d’oeuvres. Index des manuscrits.
http://bit.ly/2HXJYE0
J. Biard - A. Robert, Introduction. A. A. Robiglio, Le philosophe comme personnage littéraire: Blaise Pelacani de Parme dans le Paradiso degli Alberti – A. Robert, L’éthique de Blaise de Parme dans ses Questions sur la Physique – C. Grellard, Une histoire naturelle des religions: Blaise de Parme, les astres et les sectes – J. Biard, Rationalismes régionaux dans la philosophie médiévale tardive: le cas de Blaise de Parme – G. Federici Vescovini, Blaise de Parme et l’intelligibilité mathématique – D. A. Di Liscia, Biagio Pelacani da Parma’s Geometrisation of Latitudes and the Problems of the Mean Degree Theorem – S. Rommevaux-Tani, Les règles du mouvement dans la seconde rédaction des Questions sur la Physique de Blaise de Parme – M. Roques, Blaise de Parme et la quantité – N. Weill-Parot, Une position originale? Le contact entre le moteur et le mû dans les Quaestiones disputatae super octo libros Physicorum de Blaise de Parme – F. Seller, La détermination des positions des astres dans l’optique de Blaise de Parme – V. Sorge, Sens externes et sens internes chez Blaise de Parme – J. F. Silva, Blasius of Parma on the Activity of Sense. Bibliographie. Index des noms de personnes et d’oeuvres. Index des manuscrits.
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Cosmology (Physics), Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Science, and 15 moreRationalism, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Philosophie, Éthique, Filosofía medieval, Physique, Histoire Des Sciences, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, History of Medieval Philosophy, Histoire Des Mathématiques, Histoire Medievale, Storia Della Filosofia Medievale, Storia Della Scienza, Biagio Pelacani Da Parma, and Medieval reception of Aristotle's Physics
Blaise de Parme (ca. 1350-1416) a enseigné toute sa vie dans les plus grandes universités italiennes, à Padoue, Pavie et Florence, et ses ouvrages philosophiques ont joui d’une grande réputation jusqu’au cœur de la Renaissance.... more
Blaise de Parme (ca. 1350-1416) a enseigné toute sa vie dans les plus grandes universités italiennes, à Padoue, Pavie et Florence, et ses ouvrages philosophiques ont joui d’une grande réputation jusqu’au cœur de la Renaissance. Aujourd’hui, il est surtout connu par le sobriquet qu’un scribe du XV e siècle lui a donné dans un manuscrit: doctor diabolicus. Depuis lors, les historiens de la philosophie n’ont eu de cesse de traquer dans ses œuvres – la plupart inédites les indices de son hétérodoxie. Matérialiste, athée, relativiste, hédoniste… on ne compte plus les épithètes attachées à son nom. Le présent volume propose de faire le point sur la philosophie de Blaise de Parme en se concentrant sur les domaines dans lesquels il a défendu les thèses les plus marquantes: la physique, la psychologie et l’éthique. On trouvera aussi des éclaircissements sur les mathématiques, l’optique, la science des astres et la religion. Les contributions réunies dans ce volume présentent un Blaise de Parme beaucoup plus complexe que l’image véhiculée par l’historiographie, en montrant la grande originalité de ce penseur.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, and 15 moreMedieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian Studies, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, History of Science, Medieval Church History, Moral Philosophy, Philosophie, Filosofía, Histoire Des Sciences, Histoire, Moyen Age, and History of Philosophy
Qu’est-ce qu’une discipline au Moyen Âge ? Selon que l’on s’intéresse au discours des penseurs médiévaux ou à la reconstruction des historiens contemporains, la réponse pourrait s’avérer très différente, peut-être même décevante. Pour... more
Qu’est-ce qu’une discipline au Moyen Âge ? Selon que l’on s’intéresse au discours des penseurs médiévaux ou à la reconstruction des historiens contemporains, la réponse pourrait s’avérer très différente, peut-être même décevante. Pour cette raison, l’objectif de ce volume est d’aborder la question non en partant de définitions théoriques souvent figées, mais à travers l’étude des pratiques concrètes des acteurs, lesquelles impliquent parfois perméabilités, évolutions ou hybridations des savoirs. Le choix du contexte italien s’explique par des caractéristiques exceptionnelles. La non séparation de l’enseignement des arts et de la médecine, l’absence dans de nombreuses villes de facultés de théologie, la présence enfin d’une vie culturelle intense dans le cadre urbain, sont autant d’éléments qui contribuent en effet à favoriser les porosités et les innovations. Il s’agira donc d’examiner ces changements du point de vue des frontières, c’est-à-dire des points de rencontre ou de séparation entre les différents savoirs universitaires. Trois domaines ont été privilégiés : la rhétorique et ses usages ; le droit dans ses rapports parfois ambigus avec la philosophie et la théologie ; la médecine et son rôle dans la définition de nouveaux champs comme la médecine légale ou l’éthique médicale. Dans chaque cas, sont croisés les aspects matériels, institutionnels et doctrinaux à l’oeuvre dans les déplacements de ces frontières – montrant que les disciplines échappent le plus souvent à leur définition traditionnelle, qu’elle soit médiévale ou contemporaine.
Research Interests: Philology, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, and 27 moreMedieval Philosophy, Rhetoric, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, History of the Book, Medieval Studies, Historiography, History of Science, Magic, Manuscript Studies, Petrarch, Medieval Church History, Italian Literature, History of Universities, Medieval Europe, Church History, Medieval Italy, Social History of Medicine, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Italy, History of Law, Histoire, Histoire du droit, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Philosophy, and 26 morePhilosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Humanities, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Race and Racism, Anthropology of the Body, History of Science, Medieval Theology, History of Anthropology, The Body, Italian Humanism, Medical Ethics, Racism, Soul (Humanities), Arabic Philosophy, Humanism, Medieval Italy, Medicine, History of Medicine and the Body, Body and Soul, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, and 32 moreHistory of Ethics, Moral Psychology, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, Plato, Aristotle, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Virtue Ethics, History of Science, Virtues (Moral Psychology), Medical Ethics, Theology and Culture, Augustine, Free Will, Moral Philosophy, Aristotelian Logic, Aristotelianism, Metaphysics of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, John Buridan, Aristotle's Ethics, Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Albert the Great, Henry of Ghent, Medieval Aristotelianism, History of Medieval Philosophy, History of theology, Aristotelian Ethics, Roger Bacon, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and 20 moreMedical Anthropology, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, Medieval History, Film Studies, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Cultural Theory, HIV/AIDS, History of Social Sciences, Philosophy of Film, History of Sociology, Emotional Contagion, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Mary Douglas, egalitarianism, grid/group theory, Jared Diamond, Financial Contagion, and Contagion
In his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, Nicole Oresme raises a question that he is apparently the first to ask in these terms, in such a context: do all beings have the desire to persevere into being? Before him, this question is not... more
In his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, Nicole Oresme raises a question that he is apparently the first to ask in these terms, in such a context: do all beings have the desire to persevere into being? Before him, this question is not found in any of the medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics. But after him it became canonical until at least the 16th century, since it can be found in Pietro Pomponazzi’s works for example. The novelty here consists in questioning the validity of Averroes’ thesis, in his own commentary on the Physics, according to which all beings have the desire to persist into being, using the Augustinian analysis of voluntary death and suicide. How can we explain that one can freely put an end to his days if he is naturally inclined by a desire for life and even for eternity? Oresme’s solution consists in justifying not only the possibility, but also the moral obligation to accept death under certain conditions. In most cases, we do not really want to die. The desperate man wishes to cancel his misfortune and the heroic man who sacrifices him- self for his country wishes to immortalize himself in the memory of other men. From a moral point of view, Nicole Oresme justifies only one case of voluntary death: that of individual sacrifice for the common good. The aim of this paper is to analyze precisely this important turning point in the long his- tory of the notion of conatus in the West by comparing this quaestio from the commentary on the Physics with the glosses that accompany the French translation of the Nicomachean Ethics realised by Oresme at the court of Charles V.
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, and 15 morePhilosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Death, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Moral Philosophy, Philosophie, Storia medievale, Histoire Medievale, History of Philosophy, and Nicole Oresme
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, and 15 moreDante Studies, Italian Studies, Literature, Medieval Studies, Dante, Guido Cavalcanti, Medieval Islamic History, Dante Alighieri, Averroism, Averroes, Latin Averroism, Italy, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Philosophie, and Histoire de la philosophie médiévale
Blasius of Parma taught moral philosophy in Pavia and probably in Florence, but nothing remains from his lectures. Fortunately, one quaestio of his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, which is extant in two different versions, one... more
Blasius of Parma taught moral philosophy in Pavia and probably in Florence, but nothing remains from his lectures. Fortunately, one quaestio of his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, which is extant in two different versions, one discussed in Padova between 1382 and 1388, the other in Pavia in 1397, gives important informations about his positions in the field of ethics. The problem he discusses is the following: does every being naturally wishes to persist in being? As usual in his commentaries, Blasius of Parma gives several solutions (determinationes) to this question from different point of views (physical, ethical, theological, astrological). As a whole, Blasius’s two quaestiones argues for the possibility of dying voluntarily and virtuously, even though human beings are naturally inclined to willing to survive. Incidentally, he defends the superiority of active life over contemplative life and praises the courage of men who decide to die for their country. From the point of view of theology, Blasius interprets Anselm of Canterbury’s distinction between the will of rectitudo and the will of commoda in a radical way. The first kind of act of the will has no object in this life, so that we are left with our will to enjoy earthly goods (the commoda). As a consequence, the existence of an afterlife does not alter our desire to be as happy as we can with our earthly means. In other words, like Pietro Pomponazzi in the XVI th century, Blasius of Parma considers ethical questions independently of the issue of the immortality of the soul.
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, and 15 morePhilosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian Studies, Medieval Studies, Virtue Ethics, History of Science, Continental Philosophy, Italian Literature, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophie, Histoire Médiévale, Italiano, and History of Philosophy
The aim of this paper is to show that John Wyclif’s theory of space is at once an interpretation of the Platonic theory of place and a Neopythagorean conception of magnitudes and numbers. The result is an original form of mathematical... more
The aim of this paper is to show that John Wyclif’s theory of space is at once an interpretation of the Platonic theory of place and a Neopythagorean conception of magnitudes and numbers. The result is an original form of mathematical atomism in which atoms are point-like entities with a particular situation in space. If the core of this view comes from Boethius’ De arithmetica, John Wyclif is also influenced by Robert Grosseteste’s metaphysics, which includes the Boethian number theory within the Christian tale of the creation of the world ex nihilo. John Wyclif, however, adds some novelty to this theory concerning the epistemological status of this hypothetical description of the creation of the world out of atoms. First, according to Wyclif, whereas geometry is concerned with sensible and imaginable beings, arithmetic, which is purely intellectual, has access to the deep mathematical structure of the universe. He then suggests a subordination of geometry under arithmetic, which he considers the most solid basis for his metaphysics. As a result, with the attribution of numbers and units to every level of reality, it becomes possible to reform our natural imagination, so that it can imagine the atomic structure of matter and space.
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval History, and 15 moreHistory of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, History of Science, History of Atomism, John Wyclif, Imagination, Space, Boethius, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Philosophie, Realism, Histoire, Arithmetic, History of Medieval Philosophy, and Histoire Medievale
This is a summary of my lectures/seminars at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) in 2016-2017. They focus on medieval atomism in relation to theology. They mostly deal with 13th-century thinkers (in particular Robert Grosseteste... more
This is a summary of my lectures/seminars at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) in 2016-2017. They focus on medieval atomism in relation to theology. They mostly deal with 13th-century thinkers (in particular Robert Grosseteste and Albert the Great).
Research Interests: Philology, History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, and 41 moreCultural History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of Mathematics, History of Medicine, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, Historiography, History of Science, Islamic Philosophy, History of Atomism, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Philosophy of Mathematics Education, Medieval Europe, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Art, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Historia, Philosophie, Matematica, Storia medievale, Storia delle Religioni, Matemáticas, Storia, Histoire, Historia Medieval, Ancient atomism, MATEMATICAS, Scienze dell'Antichità, History of Philosophy, Filosofia Della Scienza, and Storia Della Scienza
In 1277, Etienne Tempier condemned several propositions about sexual morality. It is usually considered as the result of the Bishop's imagination, since no trace has been found in the texts of the Parisian faculty of Arts that deal with... more
In 1277, Etienne Tempier condemned several propositions about sexual morality. It is usually considered as the result of the Bishop's imagination, since no trace has been found in the texts of the Parisian faculty of Arts that deal with such issues. The present paper argues that is possible that Tempier's target was a commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to some disputed questions on natural philosophy. Indeed, if no trace is found before 1277, several commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics deal with love and sexuality immediately after the condemnation as well as some disputed questions. What is more, some of them explicitly mention Andreas Capelanus' De amore, which is on of Tempier's targets.
Research Interests: Religion, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, and 60 moreEthics, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Moral Psychology, Art History, Medieval Literature, Theology, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Dante Studies, Aristotle, History of Religion, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Religion and Sexuality, Poetry, Anthropology of the Body, History of Science, Sexuality, Sexuality and chivalry/courtly love, Gender and Sexuality, History of Sexuality, Petrarch, Medieval Church History, Love, Catholic Theology, History of Universities, Moral Theology, History Of Sexuality (Sexuality And Chivalry Courtly Love), Church History, Dante, Guido Cavalcanti, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Love, Aristotle's Commentators, Sexuality And Culture, Aristotelianism, Heresy, Medieval Art, Social History of Medicine, Dante Alighieri, Aristotle's Ethics, Heresy and Inquisition, History of Medicine and the Body, Church, Theories of Love, Historia, Storia medievale, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Middle Ages, Paris, Medieval heresy, Historia Medieval, Medieval Lyric Poetry, Aristoteles, Late medieval popular religion, heterodoxy and heresy, memory in the later Middle Ages., Philosophy of Love and Sex, History of Philosophy, Cavalcanti, and Condemnation of 1277
William of Ockham frequently mentions a distinction between two modes of cognition: in se and in alio. The aim of this chapter is to show that this distinction raises some important problems for his philosophy of mind and more broadly for... more
William of Ockham frequently mentions a distinction between two modes of cognition: in se and in alio. The aim of this chapter is to show that this distinction raises some important problems for his philosophy of mind and more broadly for his nominalism. The main issue is the possibility of an externalist theory of mental contents. For, Ockham affirms that no material substance is cognized in se. But if only accidents are cognized in se does this mean that material substances are necessarily cognized in alio? How could this “something else” lead us to the cognition of something we have never experienced? The difficulty here is how we should understand his view concerning the acquisition of simple substance concepts like “man” or “horse.” On the one hand it seems that we have no direct acquaintance with substances. On the other hand, he says that these concepts, equivalent to simple natural kind terms in the mind, directly refer to singular substances thanks to external relations of causality and likeness, on which their signification is based. This chapter suggests that the evolution of Ockham’s theory of concepts during his career is probably the key for our understanding of this crucial distinction.
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and 81 morePhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy Of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Languages and Linguistics, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), Aristotle, History of Religion, Semantics, Philosophical Theology, Cognitive Semantics, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognition, Theory of Mind, Islamic Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Realism (Philosophy), Semantic Externalism, Aquinas, Medieval Church History, Philosophy of History, Metaphysics of Mind, Catholic Theology, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Hilary Putnam, Medieval Europe, Cognitive Linguistics, Arabic Philosophy, Church History, William Ockham, Linguistics, Augustine of Hippo, Ancient Philosophy, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Philosophies of Human Nature, Aristotle's Commentators, Aristotelianism, Internalism/Externalism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Buridan, Nominalism, Albert the Great, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Late Medieval Religion, Monasticism and Devotion, Saul Kripke, Externalism, Philosophie, Filosofía, Realism, Storia medievale, Filosofía medieval, Modularity of Mind, St Thomas Aquinas, Historia Medieval, Jerry Fodor, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Late medieval popular religion, heterodoxy and heresy, memory in the later Middle Ages., Mental Language, Histoire de la philosophie, Saint Augustine, Filosofia Della Mente, Externalism about mental content., Medioevo, Histoire Medievale, St. Augustine, Moyen Age, Filosofia Medieval, William of Ockham, Ockhamism, Storia Della Filosofia Medievale, History of Philosophy, Occam's Razor, and Filosofia
Dans une lettre adressée à son ami médecin Giovanni Bianchi da Reggio, l'astronome italien Matteo Garimberti da Parma s'interroge sur la nature du bonheur humain. Dans ce texte notre auteur propose un panorama des grandes écoles... more
Dans une lettre adressée à son ami médecin Giovanni Bianchi da Reggio, l'astronome italien Matteo Garimberti da Parma s'interroge sur la nature du bonheur humain. Dans ce texte notre auteur propose un panorama des grandes écoles philosophiques de l'Anti-quité, passant du Lycée au Portique, pour finalement s'arrêter dans le Jardin. Malgré le caractère apparemment scolaire de l'entreprise, il est remarquable que cette épître inédite ne se contente pas d'une simple doxographie, neutre et sans engagement de la part de son auteur, mais expose en filigranes les premiers linéaments d'une vision syncrétique de l'éthique grecque fortement inspirée par l'oeuvre de Sénèque. Si Aristote ouvre la voie théorique à une réconciliation de la vertu stoïcienne et du plaisir épicurien, c'est toutefois Épicure qui vient clore ce texte, et c'est avec lui que le lecteur demeure en dernier ressort, lui qui, à en croire notre auteur, défendit l'idée d'une volupté vertueuse. Cette lettre, écrite avant 1412 et probablement dès la fin du XIVe siècle, montre donc que l'éthique épicurienne faisait déjà l'objet d'attitudes positives avant la "redécouverte" de Lucrèce en 1417 et la traduction de Diogène Laërce.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 72 moreCultural Studies, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ethics, Philosophy Of Religion, Humanities, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Renaissance History, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Aristotle, Italian Studies, Philosophy of Education, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Historiography, Renaissance, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Stoicism, Medieval Church History, Italian Cultural Studies, Italian Literature, Seneca, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, History of Astronomy, Cicero, Italian Renaissance Art, Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance literature, Epicurus, Moral Philosophy, History Of Modern Philosophy, Italian Renaissance literature, History of Historiography, Medieval Art, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Aristotle's Ethics, Roman Stoicism, Epicureanism, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Italy, Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance magic and astrology, Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Histoire Des Sciences, Histoire, Historia Medieval, Littérature, Aristoteles, Parma, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, Cicero's philosophical works, Italiano, Letteratura italiana, Historiografía, Histoire Medievale, Renaissance Florence, Moyen Age, Epicureanism and Stoicism, Epicurean ethics, History of Philosophy, and Epicureans
The aim of this paper is to understand the reasons for which Pietro d’Abano is often considered as a radical defender of materialism, whereas on many issues it is clear that he is not a materialist. After a brief overview of different... more
The aim of this paper is to understand the reasons for which Pietro d’Abano is often considered as a radical defender of materialism, whereas on many issues it is clear that he is not a materialist. After a brief overview of different statements about his allegiance to materialism, which is frequently linked to his supposed acquaintance with averroism, the paper focuses on four case studies, which allow us to clarify some aspects of his natural philosophy. The first is the nature of mixture of the elements, the second is the action of qualities, the third is animal growth, and the last one is spontaneous generation. In each case Pietro d’Abano is explicitly opposed to Ancient materialism and tends to follow Averroes’ interpretation of Aristotle’s physics. More precisely, he tries to reconcile Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes in order to defend a coherent hylomorphism, without accepting the uniqueness and separation of the intellect. When he discusses animal growth, for instance, he takes some technical points to Alexander in order to explain the primacy of form over matter in this process. When he explains the possibility of spontaneous generation, he follows Averroes’ astrologization of Aristotle’s biology in order to avoid materialism on the one hand and Platonism on the other. One should say, with some provocation, that Pietro d’Abano defends rather a formalist ontology.
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and 72 morePhilosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Atheism, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Aristotle, History of Religion, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Anthropology of the Body, History of Science, Astrology, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Islam, The Body, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Materialism, Medical Astrology, History of Astronomy, History of Astrology, History of Religions, Natural philosophy, History of Physics, Medieval Europe, Soul (Humanities), Arabic Philosophy, Phenomenology of the body, History of Atheism, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Canon & Roman Law, Naturalism, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Historical Materialism, Aristotle's Commentators, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotelianism, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Aristotle's Ethics, History of Medicine and the Body, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, Reductionism, Avicenna, Averroes, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Medecine, Renaissance magic and astrology, Matter, New Materialism, Materiality, Body and Soul, Histoire, Historia Medieval, Hylomorphism, Aristoteles, Speculative Materialism, Spontaneous generation, Moyen Âge, Aristotélisme, History of astrology and astronomy, Histoire Medievale, Moyen Age, Histoire culturelle, Histoire des religions, Avicenna Latinus, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Dante Studies, and 26 moreMedieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Philosophy, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Science, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Early Modern Intellectual History, Early Modern Italy, Renaissance literature, Epicurus, History Of Modern Philosophy, Medieval Italy, Early Modern Science, Boccaccio, Epicurus (Philosophy), Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Dante Alighieri, Lucretius, Early Modern Philosophy, Epicureanism, Pierre Gassendi, John of Salisbury, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Renaissance History, Early Modern History, Plato, and 26 moreMedieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, History of Atomism, Manuscript Studies, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Early Modern Literature, Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance literature, Philosophy (Medieval Studies), Epicurus, Coluccio Salutati, Italian Renaissance literature, Poggio Bracciolini, Diogenes Laertius, Epicurus (Philosophy), Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Lucretius, Origin of Language, Early Modern Philosophy, Epicureanism, Stephen Greenblatt, Lucretius, De rerum natura, and History of Medieval Philosophy
Textes réunis par Tiziana Suarez-Nani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories... more
Textes réunis par Tiziana Suarez-Nani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire
de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes
et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité.
Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration
de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait
devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la
métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions
les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude
des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe
et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées,
à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts
ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions
permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire
de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes
et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité.
Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration
de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait
devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la
métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions
les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude
des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe
et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées,
à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts
ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions
permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Theology, and 37 moreMedieval Science, Manuscript Studies, Materialism, Medieval theology (Medieval Studies), Medieval Europe, Medieval Culture, Negative Theology, Medieval philology, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Neoplatonism, Medieval Chemistry and Physics, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Robert Grosseteste, Francisco Suárez, Christian Neoplatonism, Medieval Latin, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Philosophie, Medieval Metaphysics, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Filosofía, Metaphisics, Nicolaus Cusanus, Metafísica, Medieval Alchemy, Edad Media, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, History of Medieval Philosophy, Medioevo, Medieval Universities, History of alchemy, Moyen Age, Storia Della Filosofia Medievale, History of Philosophy, Storia culturale e sociale del Medioevo, and Pietro D'Abano
In 1887, Paul Tannery suggested that some ancient Pythagoreans defended a form of atomism against which Eleatic philosophers such as Zeno of Elea reacted. Later, Democritus and Leucippus on one hand, Plato on the other, developed... more
In 1887, Paul Tannery suggested that some ancient Pythagoreans defended a form of atomism against which Eleatic philosophers such as Zeno of Elea reacted. Later, Democritus and Leucippus on one hand, Plato on the other, developed atomistic intuitions in reaction to this old debate. No one would accept nowadays Tannery’s historical claim, but the philosophical content of his interpretation is still relevant for the history of atomism, especially for the Middle Ages. Indeed, according to Tannery the Pythagoreans defined atoms as points, i.e. the equivalent of units for numbers but with a position in space. This conception of a point was well known in the Middle Ages thanks to Boethius’ adaptation of Nicomachus of Gerasa’s Institutio arithmetica and other indirect sources (Macrobius, Martianus Capella, for instance) and was accepted by several philosophers and theologians. In this paper we try to follow the reception of this
concept from the 12th to the 14th century.
concept from the 12th to the 14th century.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 69 moreMathematics, Number Theory, Music, Music History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Art History, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, History of Mathematics, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Space and Place, Renaissance, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, Medieval Latin Literature, Metaphysics of Time, History of Atomism, Medieval Islam, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Philosophy of Mathematics Education, History of Music Theory, Paganism, Medieval Europe, Arabic Philosophy, Medieval Architecture, Philosophy of Time, Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance music, Philosophy of Cosmology, Pythagoreanism, History Of Modern Philosophy, Early Modern Science, Medieval Art, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Pythagoreans, Robert Grosseteste, Boethius, Reception of Antiquity, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Philosophie, Pythagoras, Geometry, Roman Philosophy, Histoire Des Sciences, Histoire Des Techniques, Peter Abelard, Histoire, Historia Medieval, Ancient atomism, Histoire Des Mathématiques, History of theology, Histoire Medievale, Moyen Age, Histoire culturelle, Nicomachus of Gerasa, Philosophie Et Kabbale, History of Philosophy, and Pitagorismo
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Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and 39 moreMedieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Plato, Aristotle, History of Mathematics, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, History of Science, History of Atomism, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, Ancient Philosophy, Epicurus, History Of Modern Philosophy, Aristotle's Commentators, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Democritus, Lucretius, Robert Grosseteste, Early Modern Philosophy, Epicureanism, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Storia medievale, Histoire Des Techniques, Storia, Peter Abelard, Histoire, Historia Medieval, Ancient atomism, Istorie, William of Champeaux, Histoire Medievale, Histoire culturelle, History of Philosophy, and Istorie Medievală
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval History, Aristotle, and 12 moreMedieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Theology, Mereotopology, History of Atomism, Mereology, William Ockham, Dominican History, Aristotelianism, Dominican Order, William of Ockham, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy Of Language, Medieval Philosophy, and 16 morePhilosophy Of Religion, Medieval History, Aristotle, Semantics, Medieval Studies, History of Science, History of Atomism, Medieval Church History, William Ockham, Ancient Philosophy, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Categories, History of Medieval Philosophy, William of Ockham, History of Philosophy, and William Crathorn
In the De sensu et sensato, VI Aristotle asks whether sensible qualities are infinitely divisible in the same way as bodies are infinitely divisible, as is proved in Physics, VI. Defending the continuity of sensible qualities, he affirms... more
In the De sensu et sensato, VI Aristotle asks whether sensible qualities are infinitely divisible in the same way as bodies are infinitely divisible, as is proved in Physics, VI. Defending the continuity of sensible qualities, he affirms that they are infinitely divisible and that beyond the apparent minima sensibilia all the parts in which a thing and its qualities can be divided are still potentially sensible. But what does it mean to be « potentially sensible » ? Aristotle seems to say that beyond a certain threshold a part cannot continue to exist with the same sensible form. So, beyond the minima sensibilia parts are only potentially sensible as long as they are parts of a bigger whole. This assertion became a puzzle for commentators in Late Antiquity. In the 14th Century, the French philosopher John of Jandun treats this puzzle in three distinct quaestiones on the De sensu and sensato and develops an original point of view inspired by Alexander of Aphrodisias. According to him, it is conceivable that very small sensible things continue to exist on their own without being sensed by any kind of cognitive faculty. Therefore, these minute parts are not « potentially sensible » because they could be cognized by the senses in other circumstances, but only because they are sensible by nature though never sensed. But to affirm this is certainly not for John of Jandun a concession to the Atomist theory of sensible qualities. This paper endeavours to reconstruct the complex reasoning behind this medieval conception of the sensible world.
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Empiricism, Medieval History, Aristotle, History of Mathematics, and 25 moreMedieval Studies, History of Science, History of Atomism, Medieval Islam, History of Physics, Epicurus, Aristotle's Commentators, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotelianism, Epicurus (Philosophy), Averroism, Epicureanism, Averroes, Sensation and Perception, Latin Averroism, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Theory of Knowledge, Medieval Aristotelianism, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Aristotle's Physics, Ancient atomism, Epicureanism and Stoicism, Aristotle's Parva Naturalia, History of Philosophy, and John of Jandun
The paradigmatic examples of what we call nowadays ‘mere Cambridge changes’ are relational properties. If someone is on the left of a table at t-1 and on the right of this table at t, the table does not undergo a physical change, but it... more
The paradigmatic examples of what we call nowadays ‘mere Cambridge changes’ are relational properties. If someone is on the left of a table at t-1 and on the right of this table at t, the table does not undergo a physical change, but it has nonetheless new relational properties. What kind of relation lies behind this kind of change? Should we abandon the definition of identity as a set of permanent properties through time? This concern with identity and change was already present in Aristotle’s Physics 5 and 7 and medieval commentators tackled the problem with some important refinements due to their metaphysical discussions about the nature of relations. John of Jandun’s discussion of this topic, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, is particularly interesting. First, he defines self-identity as a relation of reason, which means for him that it is not a real relation. Second, he distinguishes two kinds of relational changes: those involving real relations and the acquisition a qualitative property; and those that are based on relations of reason. In the second case, there is no real change and the relation is established by the mind. After a presentation of his ontology of relations and changes, we will discuss the application of Jandun’s theory to sensation and intellectual knowledge, which he treats as relational changes.
Research Interests: History, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Metaphysics, and 69 morePhilosophy of Mind, Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics of properties, Logic, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Aristotle, History of Mathematics, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Historiography, Renaissance, History of Science, Islamic Philosophy, History of Logic, Metaphysics of Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Philosophical Logic, History of Physics, Medieval Europe, Philosophy of Logic, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotelian Logic, Aristotle's Commentators, Simplicius, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Buridan, Ancient Metaphysics, Averroism, Renaissance Aristotelianism, Descartes, Albert the Great, Avicenna, Averroes, Noetics, Sensation and Perception, Latin Averroism, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Identity, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Filosofie, Philosophie, Epistemología, Filosofía de la Ciencia, Filosofía, Storia medievale, Aristóteles, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Aristotle's Physics, St Thomas Aquinas, Aristoteles, Analytic Metaphysics, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Ancient commentators on Aristotle, History of Metaphysics, Histoire de la philosophie, Aristotle's Psychology, Siger of Brabant, Aristotélisme, History of Philosophy, Peter Geach, Filosofia, John of Jandun, and Cambridge change
Dino del Garbo, an italian physician active in the first decades of the XIVth century, is well known for his commentary on Guido Cavalcanti’s poem Donna me prega. The present study offers the edition of a quodlibetal question on the... more
Dino del Garbo, an italian physician active in the first decades of the XIVth century, is well known for his commentary on Guido Cavalcanti’s poem Donna me prega. The present study offers the edition of a quodlibetal question on the imagination’s ability to alter the body, disputed in Bologna or Siena in the 1320s. We examine the medical and philosophical context in which this question occurs, by showing in particular how the debate gradually focused on the opposition between the Avicennian and Aristotelian models of the soul/body relationship. The analysis of this debate allows to shed new light on the gloss of Dino del Garbo on Donna me prega and also, incidentally, on the poem itself.
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy of Mind, Medieval Philosophy, and 64 moreLatin Literature, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian (European History), Dante Studies, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Poetry, Anthropology of the Body, History of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Renaissance Philosophy, Theory of Mind, Continental Philosophy, Petrarch, Italian Cultural Studies, Italian Literature, Placebo Effect, Galen, History of Universities, History of Florence, Arabic Philosophy, Phenomenology of the body, Imagination, Italian philology, Dante, Guido Cavalcanti, Philosophy of Love, Medieval Italian Literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Boccaccio, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Dante Alighieri, History of Medicine and the Body, Avicenna, Averroes, Italy, Italian, Siena, Histoire, Medieval Lyric Poetry, Mind-body problem, Lovesickness, Italiano, Letteratura italiana, history of Bologna, Medieval Italian Literature and History, 13th-14th century Italian poetry, Histoire Medievale, Moyen Age, Letteratura italiana medievale, medieval Florence, History of Philosophy, Dino Del Garbo, and Philosophy of Mind: Imagination
Did the physicians of the Middle Ages have a vision of man radically different from those of philosophers and theologians ? This study attempts to respond to this question through an examination of one of the central concepts of medieval... more
Did the physicians of the Middle Ages have a vision of man radically different from those of philosophers and theologians ? This study attempts to respond to this question through an examination of one of the central concepts of medieval medicine : the complexion or temperament of the body. Emerging in Antiquity and filtered across a series of Arabic sources, this notion was deployed by physicians to define the human body in its specificity, notably in relation to other animal species. It also, however, defined the human in its individuality since each body possesses a singular complexion. The hypothesis explored in this paper is the following : to define man by his complexion rather than his substantial form, to consider him in bodily terms rather than in terms of the soul, reveals the presence of a new anthropological discourse in the Middle Ages. This perspective is, of course, not radically opposed to the philosophical and theological theories of that time. However, it opens the way to new interpretations of the diversity that exists at the heart of the human in evading all essentialist hermeneutics. The idea of complexion appears in numerous medieval texts, including those well beyond the field of medicine. Yet, between the 13th and 15th centuries, it circulates with a particular intensity amongst Italian medical circles, notably in the universities of Bologna and Padua. In this context, an initial mode of interrogation emerges in theoretical medical texts : how to define the nature of complexion with the philosophical tools of the period, largely influenced as they were by various forms of Aristotelianism ? The physicians examined in this article all have backgrounds in philosophy and went on to study at the Faculty of arts, explaining, in part, their utilization of philosophical concepts in the elaboration of the ontology of complexion. Two thinkers, Taddeo Alderotti and Pietro d’Abano, are of particular interest here insofar as they establish in an definitive manner the general framework of questions, which continue to be invoked by their successors.
The general problematic of complexion can be summarized as follows : Galen appears to affirm in certain texts that the soul can be reduced to the complexion of the body, that it is thus material, and hence also mortal ; however, since such an idea is generally unacceptable from a Christian perspective, it was necessary to rethink the notion of complexion so as to not confound it with the soul while simultaneously preserving its fundamental characteristics. Following Aristotle, philosophers and theologians tended largely to identify the soul to substantial form, which organizes matter and gives life to it, while remaining ontologically distinct from it. Taddeo Alderotti and Pietro d’Abano demonstrate how complexion is not identical to the soul, but is rather a property present in each man and which is not a mere accident. For them, complexion was a “substantial quality”, a property which distinguishes man as such and which all men possess. The discourse of the physicians thus has the same extension as the philosophical discourse on the soul insofar as every being who has a soul also has a human complexion and vice versa.
A second line of questioning then immediately emerges : can one still speak of the specific form of man, if the real object of medical anthropology is located in the quasi‑infinite particularity of individual beings and the complexion of their bodies ? Once again, Taddeo Alderotti and Pietro d’Abano will fix the theoretical framework for the next generations. The specific form is one, from a metaphysical perspective, since it is possible to think of man as a unity, independently of his particularities. However this
form, which is nothing but the soul, is variously received in matter depending on the degree of perfection of the complexion of the body which is the result of the process of embryo generation. According to this medical theory, the human soul does not exist as
such in the body unless it has been prepared by its complexion to receive it. Following from this, complexion comes first and will determine the degree of participation in human functions defined by the nature of the human soul. All men do not therefore accede to the same degree of humanity. Moreover, complexion, even after the arrival of the soul, is in no way fixed : it changes incessantly in each individual in accordance with the variable factors of age, climate, diet, and care. Thenceforth, the physician can hope to raise complexion to its greatest point of equilibrium and thus, beyond simple medical care, give back to the body its highest degree of humanity. Hence, it is not surprising that the majority of Italian physicians of the late Middle Ages asked the question of both the definition and attainability of perfect complexion (that which would bring the individual to the highest degree of humanity). The physicians called this complexion equalis ad justiciam (equal according to justice), that is to say the most adapted to its object. Yet, such equilibrium is not mathematical, but depends on each context and each individual. On this point, the Italian physicians, in particular Gentile da Foligno (d. 1348) and Ugo Benzi (d. 1439), draw on the enumeration of the modalities of equilibrium evoked by Avicenna in the first book of his Canon. The art of the physician allows him to determine certain limits to humanity and also the latitude proper to each group that constitutes such humanity : for instance, the ideal complexion for someone inhabiting the southern regions of the world is not the same as someone inhabiting the northern regions of Europe – it is the task of the medical doctor as practitioner to determine what lifestyle, what diet and what medicine was needed to attain such relatively ideal complexion. The ambition of the Italian physicians of the 14th and 15th centuries thus appears to surpass the simple medical project of healing and assuring good health : they aspire to change or improve man. With this objective in mind, it was necessary for them to determine the complexion of a given individual, a determination made through the analysis of various exterior phenomena ranging from physiognomy to astrology. Complexion, given to one at birth, was also referred to as “innate complexion”, but the physicians never considered it as fixed or immutable in any manner : on the contrary, they remained convinced that the art of medicine could be used to change complexion. In this sense, their vision of man, far from being essentialist, was fundamentally optimistic : every man, while determined by nature, could hope to be improved – from a biological perspective, such as the prolonging of his life beyond its natural term, but also from a moral perspective, as Pietro Torrigiano affirmed at the beginning of the 14th century. With the aid of this extremely nuanced notion of complexion, the Italian physicians of the late Middle Ages developed a strikingly original anthropology, one which was compatible with those of the philosophers and theologians, but also one which allowed for a more flexible point of view on human beings, more attentive to the singularity of individuals. Hence, they were capable of explaining simultaneously the unity of humanity and the infinite multiplicity of its manifestations and the possibility of its variation.
The general problematic of complexion can be summarized as follows : Galen appears to affirm in certain texts that the soul can be reduced to the complexion of the body, that it is thus material, and hence also mortal ; however, since such an idea is generally unacceptable from a Christian perspective, it was necessary to rethink the notion of complexion so as to not confound it with the soul while simultaneously preserving its fundamental characteristics. Following Aristotle, philosophers and theologians tended largely to identify the soul to substantial form, which organizes matter and gives life to it, while remaining ontologically distinct from it. Taddeo Alderotti and Pietro d’Abano demonstrate how complexion is not identical to the soul, but is rather a property present in each man and which is not a mere accident. For them, complexion was a “substantial quality”, a property which distinguishes man as such and which all men possess. The discourse of the physicians thus has the same extension as the philosophical discourse on the soul insofar as every being who has a soul also has a human complexion and vice versa.
A second line of questioning then immediately emerges : can one still speak of the specific form of man, if the real object of medical anthropology is located in the quasi‑infinite particularity of individual beings and the complexion of their bodies ? Once again, Taddeo Alderotti and Pietro d’Abano will fix the theoretical framework for the next generations. The specific form is one, from a metaphysical perspective, since it is possible to think of man as a unity, independently of his particularities. However this
form, which is nothing but the soul, is variously received in matter depending on the degree of perfection of the complexion of the body which is the result of the process of embryo generation. According to this medical theory, the human soul does not exist as
such in the body unless it has been prepared by its complexion to receive it. Following from this, complexion comes first and will determine the degree of participation in human functions defined by the nature of the human soul. All men do not therefore accede to the same degree of humanity. Moreover, complexion, even after the arrival of the soul, is in no way fixed : it changes incessantly in each individual in accordance with the variable factors of age, climate, diet, and care. Thenceforth, the physician can hope to raise complexion to its greatest point of equilibrium and thus, beyond simple medical care, give back to the body its highest degree of humanity. Hence, it is not surprising that the majority of Italian physicians of the late Middle Ages asked the question of both the definition and attainability of perfect complexion (that which would bring the individual to the highest degree of humanity). The physicians called this complexion equalis ad justiciam (equal according to justice), that is to say the most adapted to its object. Yet, such equilibrium is not mathematical, but depends on each context and each individual. On this point, the Italian physicians, in particular Gentile da Foligno (d. 1348) and Ugo Benzi (d. 1439), draw on the enumeration of the modalities of equilibrium evoked by Avicenna in the first book of his Canon. The art of the physician allows him to determine certain limits to humanity and also the latitude proper to each group that constitutes such humanity : for instance, the ideal complexion for someone inhabiting the southern regions of the world is not the same as someone inhabiting the northern regions of Europe – it is the task of the medical doctor as practitioner to determine what lifestyle, what diet and what medicine was needed to attain such relatively ideal complexion. The ambition of the Italian physicians of the 14th and 15th centuries thus appears to surpass the simple medical project of healing and assuring good health : they aspire to change or improve man. With this objective in mind, it was necessary for them to determine the complexion of a given individual, a determination made through the analysis of various exterior phenomena ranging from physiognomy to astrology. Complexion, given to one at birth, was also referred to as “innate complexion”, but the physicians never considered it as fixed or immutable in any manner : on the contrary, they remained convinced that the art of medicine could be used to change complexion. In this sense, their vision of man, far from being essentialist, was fundamentally optimistic : every man, while determined by nature, could hope to be improved – from a biological perspective, such as the prolonging of his life beyond its natural term, but also from a moral perspective, as Pietro Torrigiano affirmed at the beginning of the 14th century. With the aid of this extremely nuanced notion of complexion, the Italian physicians of the late Middle Ages developed a strikingly original anthropology, one which was compatible with those of the philosophers and theologians, but also one which allowed for a more flexible point of view on human beings, more attentive to the singularity of individuals. Hence, they were capable of explaining simultaneously the unity of humanity and the infinite multiplicity of its manifestations and the possibility of its variation.
Research Interests: History, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and 30 moreMedieval Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, History of Science, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Philosophy, History of Anthropology, Medieval Latin Literature, Italian Literature, Medieval Europe, Arabic Philosophy, Medical Anthropology/ antropología médica, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophies of Human Nature, Italian Renaissance literature, Medieval Italy, Medicine, Anthropologie de la santé, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Philosophie, Histoire Des Sciences, Anthropologie, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Histoire de la philosophie, Histoire de la médecine, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Philosophy, and 24 moreMedieval Philosophy, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History of Science, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Philosophy, History of Anthropology, 18th & 19th Centuries, Arabic Philosophy, History Of Modern Philosophy, 17th- and 18th-century Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Medicine and the Body, Early Modern Philosophy, Early modern medical history, History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early modern medicine, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, History of Science and Technology, Psychology, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and 32 moreHistory of Ideas, Medieval History, Plato, Aristotle, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Medieval Theology, Theory of Mind, Magic, Placebo Effect, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Moyen-âge/Renaissance, Medieval Italy, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Medicine, History of Medicine and the Body, MInd-Body Medicine, Avicenna, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Magic and Divination in the Ancient World, Storia medievale, Histoire, Western Magical Tradition, Histoire de la médecine, Incantations, Histoire Medievale, Moyen Age, Médecine, History of Philosophy, and QUSTA IBN LUQA
Research Interests: Religion, History, History of Science and Technology, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 47 morePhilosophy, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Social Sciences, Theology, Medieval History, History of Religion, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval urban history, Philosophy of Medicine, Medieval Science, Mediterranean Studies, Petrarch, Medieval Church History, Italian Literature, Political History, History of Universities, History of Political Thought, Medieval Europe, Medieval Italy, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, History of Medicine and the Body, Angevin Kings, James of Viterbo, Italy, History of Law, Storia medievale, Middle Ages, The Kingdom of Naples, History of Medieval Philosophy, Histoire de la médecine, Medioevo, Storia della medicina, Angevin Italy, Storia Della Filosofia Medievale, History of Philosophy, History of Contraception and Abortion, Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, Late Medieval Royal Courts, and John of Naples
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, History, Cultural History, Anthropology, and 23 morePhilosophy, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, History of Religion, History of Medicine, Literature, History of Christianity, Philosophical Theology, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Early Christianity, Medieval Church History, History of Religions, Augustine, Medieval Europe, Medieval Art, Medicine, Early Church Fathers, Anthropology of Religion, and History of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Religion, History, Psychology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and 24 moreEthics, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, History of Religion, Medieval Studies, Psychology of Religion, Politics, William James, History of Religions, Modernity, Ethics of Belief, Faith, Michel de Certeau, Individualism, Max Weber, Philosophie, Faith and Reason, Middle Ages, Histoire, Louis Dumont, Anthropology of Religion, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cultural History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and 32 morePhilosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, History of Religion, Italian Studies, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Church History, Italian Literature, Franciscan Studies, History of Florence, Venetian History, Franciscan Spirituality, Medieval Italy, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Mendicant Orders, Dominican Studies, Italy, Storia, Historia Medieval, Renaissance Italy, History of the Franciscan Order, ORDENES MENDICANTES EN ESPAÑA SIGLOS XIV - XVI // MONACATO MEDIEVAL - FILOSOFIA MEDIEVAL - PATRISTICA - EREMITISMO - HISTORIA DEL ARTE - WARBURG - DIDI HUBERMAN - ROGER CHARTIER, Italiano, Dominican Order, Medieval Franciscans, Mendicant Orders in Middle Ages, History of Philosophy, Franciscan Order, Medieval History of Italy, and Ordres Mendiants
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, and 33 moreEthics, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Aristotle, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Virtue Ethics, History of Science, Continental Philosophy, Virtues (Moral Psychology), Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Virtue Epistemology, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Virtues and Vices, Aristotelianism, Medieval Art, Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Buridan, Albertus Magnus, Albert the Great, Historia Medieval, Medioevo, History of Philosophy, Storia culturale e sociale del Medioevo, Storia Della Scienza, Arte E Scienza, and Science and Technology Studies
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Education, French History, and 24 moreMedieval History, History of Education, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History of Atomism, Politics, Continental Philosophy, French philosophy, Solidarity Economy, Ernest Renan, Averroism, Averroes, Latin Averroism, Solidarity, Libertine Literature, Modern Philosophy, Libertinism, Mutualité, Pietro D'Abano, Papers of Leon Bourgeois Archives, Libertinism (Paolo Sarpi; Accademia Degli Incogniti; Venetian Academies; Antiquarian and Epistolary Networks Bet Ven/Padua and N. Europe, Leon Bourgeois, Cesare Cremonini, and Léopold Mabilleau
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Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, and 33 moreHistory of Ethics, Moral Psychology, Logic, Rhetoric, History of Ideas, Medieval History, Aristotle, Medieval Studies, Virtue Ethics, History of Science, History of Logic, Medieval Europe, Practical Reasoning, Moral Philosophy, Aristotle's Commentators, Aristotelianism, Practical Rationality, Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Buridan, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Aristotle's Ethics, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, Albertus Magnus, Albert the Great, Averroes, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Anscombe, History of Medieval Philosophy, Roger Bacon, History of Philosophy, Mediaeval Thought, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, and Vincent Descombes
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Logic, History of Ideas, Late Middle Ages, and 25 moreMedieval History, Aristotle, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Philosophy, History of Logic, Medieval Islam, Thomas Aquinas, Philosophy of Logic, Arabic Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle's Commentators, Aristotelianism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, Albertus Magnus, Albert the Great, Avicenna, Porphyry, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Middle Ages, Aristoteles, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Epistemology, Medieval Philosophy, and 27 moreMedieval Literature, Social Sciences, Medieval History, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Historiography, History of Science, Manuscript Studies, Culture, History of Universities, Michel Foucault, Medieval Europe, Social History, Medieval Italy, Thomas S. Kuhn, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Italy, History of Law, Storia medievale, Science Studies, Histoire Des Sciences, Middle Ages, Histoire, Histoire du droit, and Letteratura italiana
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A two-days conference on Etienne Gilson and Hans Blumenberg and their view on the Middles Ages in general and medieval philosophy in particular, organized by Alain de Libera, Florian Michel, Christophe Grellard and Aurélien Robert
Research Interests: Christianity, History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 37 moreGerman Studies, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, German History, History of Religion, History of Christianity, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Early Christianity, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Islam, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Christology, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Christian Spirituality, Medieval philology, Medieval Art, Medieval Islamic History, Hans Blumenberg, 20th-century German philosophy, Etienne Gilson, Philosophie, Philosophie Française Contemporaine, Historia Medieval, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, History of Medieval Philosophy, Christian Studies, Alain de Libera, History of Philosophy a Medieval Literature and Philosophy
Blasius of Parma, also called the "doctor diabolicus", is one of the most interesting and intriguing figures of late medieval Italian philosophy. The aim of this conference is to give a full portrait of this thinker, who is usually... more
Blasius of Parma, also called the "doctor diabolicus", is one of the most interesting and intriguing figures of late medieval Italian philosophy. The aim of this conference is to give a full portrait of this thinker, who is usually thought of as a materialist, sometimes a hedonist, who tends to reduce everything to physical processes analyzed in logical and mathematical terms.
Research Interests: Religion, History, Ancient History, History of Science and Technology, Cultural History, and 56 moreMathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Aristotle, History of Religion, History of Mathematics, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Literature, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, Astrology, History of Philosophy of Science, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Church History, Italian Literature, Materialism, History of Astrology, Medieval Europe, William Ockham, Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance literature, Moral Philosophy, Medieval Italian Literature, Ancient Greek Philosophy, John Buridan, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Averroes, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Italy, Astronomy, Italian Philosophy, Renaissance magic and astrology, Histoire Des Techniques, Histoire, Historia Medieval, History of Medieval Philosophy, History of theology, Italiano, Ancient astrology, Histoire Medievale, History of Philosophy a Blasius of Parma
Research Interests: Religion, History, Geography, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and 44 moreHistory of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, History of Religion, Italian Studies, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Church History, Italian Literature, History of Astronomy, Franciscan Studies, Franciscan Spirituality, Medieval Italy, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Mendicant Orders, Dominican Studies, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Italy, Astronomy, Philosophie, Histoire Des Sciences, Middle Ages, Histoire Des Techniques, Histoire, Medieval Preaching, History of the Franciscan Order, Histoire Des Mathématiques, Moyen Âge, Francescanesimo, Dominican Order, Histoire Medievale, Moyen Age, Mendicant Orders in Middle Ages, Histoire culturelle, Domenicani, History of Philosophy, Ordini Mendicanti, Servite Friars, History of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), Augustinians Friars Italy, Franciscan Order, and Mendicant Orders and Urban Space
Troisième atelier du programme "Savoirs dans les ordres mendiants"
Research Interests: History of Linguistics, Religion, History, Cultural History, Medieval Philosophy, and 27 moreMedieval Literature, Theology, Medieval History, Dante Studies, History of Religion, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Italian Humanism, History of Religions, Franciscan Studies, Islamic Studies, Social History, Islamic History, Islam, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Medieval Italy, Mendicant Orders, Vernacular, Dominican Studies, Italy, Middle Ages, Histoire, History of the Franciscan Order, Histoire Medievale, Mendicant Orders in Middle Ages, History of Philosophy, and Ordres Mendiants
Research Interests: Religion, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, and 10 moreHistory of Religion, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Church History, Medieval Europe, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Mendicant Orders, Religious Studies, Middle Ages, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Religion, History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Literature, and 12 moreMedieval History, History of Religion, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Medieval Church History, History of Religions, Medieval Europe, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), History of Science and Religion, Histoire Medievale, and History of Philosophy
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Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and 16 moreMedieval History, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Magic, History of Universities, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Medieval Italy, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Italy, History of magic, History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, History of Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Universities, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Literature, and 12 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Science, Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance literature, Philosophie, and History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, and 22 moreMedieval Literature, Medieval History, History of Medicine, History of the Book, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, History of Science, Magic, Medieval Science, Petrarch, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Social History of Medicine, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Avicenna, Historia, Histoire Des Sciences, Histoire, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, Contagion, History of Medieval Philosophy, and Histoire de la médecine
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, and 11 moreMedieval Literature, Medieval History, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, Medieval Science, Italy (History), Intellectual and cultural history, Medieval Italy, Italy, Historia, and Renaissance Italy
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Research Interests: Religion, History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 50 morePhilosophy, Medieval Philosophy, English Literature, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Dante Studies, Chaucer, Literature, Medieval Studies, Medieval urban history, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Islam, Pagan Studies, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Paganism, Early Modern Literature, Medieval Europe, Early Modern Intellectual History, Dante, History Of Modern Philosophy, Medieval Art, Leibniz (Philosophy), Boccaccio, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Dante Alighieri, Neo-Paganism and Western Esotericism, Geoffrey Chaucer, Early Modern Philosophy, Neo-Paganism, Leibniz, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Literatura, Storia medievale, Modern Paganisms, Filologia dantesca, Storia, Histoire, Littérature Française, Historia Medieval, Paganism and Christianism, Littérature, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, Medeival Studies, Histoire Medievale, and History of Philosophy
Résumé des contributions du colloque Micrologus organisé à Tours par J.P. Bouder, N. Bouloux, A. Paravicini-Bagliani et A. Robert pour le Bulletin de philosophie médiévale
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 22 morePhilosophy, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Art History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Literature, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Literary Criticism, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Church History, Folk legends, Medieval Europe, Moral Philosophy, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Filología, Filosofía, Letteratura italiana, Lettere e Filosofia, Myths and Legends, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cultural History, Philosophy, Metaphysics, and 19 moreMedieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Aristotle, History of Religion, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Continental Philosophy, Medieval Church History, History of Religions, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotelianism, Early Modern Philosophy, Religious Studies, Middle Ages, Anthropology of Religion, History of Philosophy, and Richard of Mediavilla
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Research Interests: History, Medieval Philosophy, History of Ideas, Medieval History, History of Medicine, and 16 moreMedieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, Magic, Medieval Science, Medieval Europe, Arabic Philosophy, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Occultism, Avicenna, Magnetism, Middle Ages, History of Arabic Science, Avicenna Latinus, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 22 moreCultural Studies, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, History of Ideas, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, History of Religion, History of Medicine, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Ritual, Magic, Ancient Religion, Social History, Islamic History, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Ritual (Anthropology), Ritual and Performance (Egyptology), Medicine, Histoire, and Anthropology of Religion
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Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Art History, Medieval History, and 14 moreMedieval Studies, Magic, Angelology, Demonology, Angels, Apuleius, Historia, Histoire, Littérature, Demonology in early Christianity, Demonologia, Tintin, Angelology and Demonology, and Divine names; magic gems; angelology. chalcedony. Exorcistic formulas
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Annual Bulletin of presentation of recent publications in the history of medieval philosophy
Research Interests: History, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, and 10 moreMedieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Thomas Aquinas, Ancient Philosophy, History Of Modern Philosophy, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Philosophie, Histoire des sciences et de la philosophie médiévales, and History of Philosophy
This Bulletin is published every year in the Archives de philosophie and contains reviews of books dealing with medieval philosophy. This issue reviews books published in 2015 and 2016. If you want your book to be reviewed, please contact... more
This Bulletin is published every year in the Archives de philosophie and contains reviews of books dealing with medieval philosophy. This issue reviews books published in 2015 and 2016. If you want your book to be reviewed, please contact me at: aurelien.robert@univ-tours.fr
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and 15 moreMedieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Renaissance, History of Science, Islamic Philosophy, Medieval Islam, Early Medieval History, Medieval Islamic History, Filosofía, Middle Ages, Historia Medieval, Medioevo, History of Philosophy a Filosofia
this volume can be purchased on line : http://sismel.it/tidetails.asp?hdntiid=1585 www.sismel.it ISSN 2465-3276 ISBN 978-88-8450-807-2 Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a... more
this volume can be purchased on line : http://sismel.it/tidetails.asp?hdntiid=1585
www.sismel.it
ISSN 2465-3276
ISBN 978-88-8450-807-2
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité. Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées, à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
www.sismel.it
ISSN 2465-3276
ISBN 978-88-8450-807-2
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité. Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées, à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.