Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybrid...

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pr...

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the inst...

This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vincis commission for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty paintings in hi...

This volume offers a detailed interpretation of Platos texts and Platonic philosophy in its various forms and shapes as a living force in the histo...

This author-meets-critics volume about Robert Pasnaus After Certainty treats the history of epistemology, from Aristotle to the present. Pasnau pre...

Stephen Langton, later Archbishop of Canterbury and the famous signatory of Magna Carta, was a prominent intellectual, belonging to the first gener...

What is 'truth'? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced with dramatic irony. But at a time when what is true and what is untrue have acqui...

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspec...

This volume contains the records of the international Freiburg Colloquium of the same name which was held by the Medieval Institute of the Universi...

Die Bedeutung des Spiels in der Lebenswelt der mittelalterlichen Klöster und Orden ist bislang nicht als Phänomen von kultureller Tragweite erörter...

This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the ...

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M. Schmaltz traces a particular development of the metaphysics of the material world in early modern ...

In his monumental study of Philo of Alexandria (1947), Harry A. Wolfson argued that the philosophical method developed by Philo, in which Greek phi...

The Long Middle Ages indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to und...

Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His even...

Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of judaizing: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views...

This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides commitment to integrity led him to...

Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challengin...

Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challengin...

This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides commitment to integrity led him to...

This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas's contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas's contexts, his views on philosoph...

In a statement published for Paul Cobleys edition of Realism for the 21st Century. A John Deely Reader, Umberto Eco wrote that John Deely has not o...

What role did Humanism play in the emergence of English Protestantism? This question has remained a live issue for Reformation scholarship over the...

In this lecture course, Reiner Schürmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissa...

Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in establishing a new idea of popular power and its legal institutions whose functi...

This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporat...

Angelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. Hi...