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The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher
Author | : Steven Vanden Broecke,Carlos Steel,David Juste,Shlomo Sela |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789462701557 |
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Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography The present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246–after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode the fate of one’s own life and its idiosyncrasies. The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher offers the first critical edition of Bate’s Nativitas. An extensive introduction presents Bate’s life and work and sheds new light on the reception and use of Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew texts among scholars in Paris at the end of the 13th century. The book thus provides a major new resource for scholars working on medieval science, autobiography, and notions of personhood and individuality.
Sapientia Astrologica Astrology Magic and Natural Knowledge ca 1250 1800
Author | : H Darrel Rutkin |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783030107796 |
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This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the changing roles of astrology in Western science, theology, and culture from 1250 to 1500. The author considers both the how and the why. He analyzes and integrates a broad range of sources. This analysis shows that the history of astrology—in particular, the story of the protracted criticism and ultimate removal of astrology from the realm of legitimate knowledge and practice—is crucial for fully understanding the transition from premodern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy to modern Newtonian science. This removal, the author argues, was neither obvious nor unproblematic. Astrology was not some sort of magical nebulous hodge-podge of beliefs. Rather, astrology emerged in the 13th century as a richly mathematical system that served to integrate astronomy and natural philosophy, precisely the aim of the “New Science” of the 17th century. As such, it becomes a fundamentally important historical question to determine why this promising astrological synthesis was rejected in favor of a rather different mathematical natural philosophy—and one with a very different causal structure than Aristotle's.
An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France
Author | : Helena Avelar de Carvalho |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004463387 |
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This book offers an internalist view on the history of astrology by studying the case of S. Belle, an astrologer who lived in late fifteenth-century France. It addresses his methods of work, his process of learning, and his practice.
The Secret in Medieval Literature
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2022-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781666917871 |
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The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.
Early Modern French Autobiography
Author | : Nicolae Alexandru Virastau |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004459557 |
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In this book, Nicolae Alexandru Virastau offers an enlightening account of the origins of one of Europe’s most influential autobiographical traditions.
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000205022 |
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Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dante’s Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.
On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar
Author | : Julio Samsó |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1027 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004436589 |
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In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó shows that astronomical sources, written in al-Andalus, the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula, belong to the same tradition and emphasizes the role of al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula in the transmission of Islamic astronomy to medieval Europe.
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
Author | : Arthur Hilary Armstrong |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1967-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 052104054X |
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This book surveys philosophy from the neo-Platonists to St Anselm.