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The scholarly purpose of the volume is to restate and describe the historical reception of John Duns Scotus’ meta-physic......more

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Richard Rorty once said ’The world does not speak’. The resultant practice of deconstruction and the tendency to reduce ......more

Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah......more

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disc......more

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Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural ph......more

Albert the Great created a new programme of science in the thirteenth-century Latin world by extensively commenting upon......more

Does a plant shrink at night and swell in the day, like an animal breathing in and out? For a long time, the Galenic con......more

In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as controversial as the nature of the elements. Fr......more

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Written Principia on the Sentences of Peter Lombard constitute a largely unexplored but exciting genre that corresponds ......more

The most influential work of ancient astronomy is the Almagest of Ptolemy (fl. 2nd century AD). But that work does not t......more

Paracelsus (1493-1541) stands at a crossroads associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. His cosmological-meteorol......more

The second volume of Richard Rufus of Cornwall: Scriptum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis promises to reshape and deepen scho......more

In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning an......more

As the final work by Ye Xiushan, one of the most famous philosophers and philosophy scholars in China, this two-volume t......more

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To know epistemology’s history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be - and wha......more

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This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Mid......more

The Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126-1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for ......more

Aristotle’s discussion of what came to be considered Natural Law drew varied responses from medieval translators and com......more

Never-before-published writing from a key twentieth-century philosopher. In 1962, Reiner Schürmann began studying at the......more

Of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero is the only one whose ideas were continuously access......more

What is the relationship between the concept of person and the concept of intentionality? Is the phenomenological notion......more

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish la......more

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish la......more

How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our ow......more

This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. By crossing th......more

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christi......more

This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is cr......more

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exh......more

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures. It calls for renewed attention to prophe......more

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The aim of this work is to demonstrate the great contribution made by Dante Alighieri to a universalist theory of intern......more

Discover the Timeless Wonders of the ’Gesta Romanorum’ Step into a world where history, myth, and morality blend seamles......more

Discover the Timeless Wonders of the ’Gesta Romanorum’ Step into a world where history, myth, and morality blend seamles......more

Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay b......more

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the transition from the Templar Order to the Order of Christ between the 14th......more

​Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a mode......more

Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed - often considered the masterpiece of medieval Jewish philosophy - was original......more

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Gestures of Grace is a celebration of the life and career of Robert Sweetman, H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Phi......more

This book explores the intersection between the early development of medieval universities and the arrival of Aristotle’......more

This book explores the intersection between the early development of medieval universities and the arrival of Aristotle’......more

The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this bo......more

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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and m......more

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of ’something’ in different recent philosophical traditions in order to ......more

William Ockham intended the Dialogus to be a thorough examination (a "summa") of the doctrinal and political issues at s......more

The Dialogus became an important reference text during the last two centuries of the Middle Ages, especially in the time......more

In the 14th century, hypotheses about a lying God, deceived Christ, and the changeability of the past circulated. At the......more

Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take ......more

This volume presents the Italian translation of the only poetic work attributed to Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) which wa......more

One of the most important thinkers of the Middle Ages, the Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol (known in the Latin Mi......more

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The present volume contains articles based on papers delivered at the two international conferences organized as part of......more

This book aims to demonstrate the religious life of the Moriscos in Granada, and their daily attitudes, under the campai......more

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This book is a thought-provoking and meticulously researched dissertation that delves into the multifaceted origins of h......more

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages-the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise-b......more

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"What is the nature of the relationship between words and the objects they refer to?" This question is surely central to......more

This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth......more

Alfonso X was born in Toledo in 1221. He ascended the throne in 1252 after the death of his father, Ferdinand III, and e......more

Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-c. 1342) was one of the most influential and controversial political thinkers of the Middle ......more

Anselm’s ontological argument is one of the most fascinating, most controversial, and most misunderstood arguments in th......more

Celestine III died and Lotario Segni (Innocent III) was elected, he was only thirty-seven years old, he had studied Theo......more

In the Posterior Analytics Aristotle contrasts demonstrations with syllogisms through signs. In the Prior Analytics he d......more

The medieval period is also known as the "dark ages", in reference to the ecclesiastical focus on metaphysical and theol......more