Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical...
Sourcebook for the History of the Philosophy of Mind
Philosophical Psychology from Plato to Kant
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Fresh translations of key texts, exhaustive coverage from Plato to Kant, and detailed commentary by expert scholars of philosophy add up to make this sourcebook the first and most comprehensive account of the history of the philosophy of mind. Published at a time when the philosophy of mind and philosophical...
by Karen L. Fresco
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adaptation and transmission of cultural inheritance. The essays explore translation in a variety of sources...
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks.
Grounded...
A History of Women Philosophers
Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers A.D. 500–1600
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
aspirations, the rise of western monasticism was the most note worthy event of the early centuries. The importance of monasteries cannot be overstressed as sources of spirituality, learning and auto nomy in the intensely masculinized, militarized feudal period. Drawing their members from the highest...
Aristotle Transformed
The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with a new introduction by Richard Sorabji. New generations of scholars will benefit from this reissuing of classic...
by R. Pinzani
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book focuses on Abelard’s logical-grammatical analysis of natural language. Tools of modern categorial grammar are employed to clarify many of the problems raised by historiography. The book’s ample analysis of grammatical sources and critical literature allows one to evaluate the progress...
Dante's Philosophical Life
Politics and Human Wisdom in "Purgatorio"
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
When political theorists teach the history of political philosophy, they typically skip from the ancient Greeks and Cicero to Augustine in the fifth century and Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth, and then on to the origins of modernity with Machiavelli and beyond. Paul Stern aims to change this settled...
Power Play
The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste,...
by John Flood
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve...
The Political Writings
"Political Regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws"
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Alfarabi (ca. 870–950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Political Regime and Summary of Plato's "Laws," accompanied...
Behind the Castle Gate
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages.
Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both....
by Margaret Porette, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
This translation from the French original includes an introductory interpretive essay by Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., Judith Grant, and J. C. Marler, and a foreword by Kent Emery, Jr. The translators of this Modern English version rely primarily on the original French manuscript, yet also take medieval...