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Immovable Truth: Divine Knowledge and the Bible at the University of Vienna (1384-1419)
Fascinating discussions about English theologyʼs lying God, pantheism, logic of the divine, time, freedom, and fixity, if any, in biblical commentaries at the medieval University of Vienna.
Immovable Truth: Divine Knowledge and the Bible at the University of Vienna (1384-1419)
In the 14th century, hypotheses about a lying God, deceived Christ, and the changeability of the past circulated. At the new University of Vienna, three German masters attempted in their lectures on the Old Testament to counter them. Their commentaries are the longest, the most influential, and perhaps even the most inspiring commentaries on the Bible written at Vienna. This book offers a glimpse into their most unusual ideas, apocalyptic expectations, heretics, toads, and devils; assessments of Amalric of Bena, Moshe Taku, and Petrarch; and, last, but not least, the search for an immovable truth that fills their pages.
Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century
Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onset and expansion of a new movement in constructing ethics, as the methods, arguments, and cases adopted from logic and natural philosophy came to be extensively applied at Oxford and swiftly disseminated among other Oxonians eventually making their way outside Oxford. It shows how the Oxford Calculators triggered a unique and durable transformation in ethics. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Valeria Buffon, Michael W. Dunne, Marek Gensler, Simon Kemp, Edit A. Lukács, Monika Michałowska, and Andrea Nannini.
Quantifying Aristotle
Aristotelian philosophy is generally regarded as incompatible with the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. This book offers an entirely new perspective on this presumed incompatibility. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how the Calculators' techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism. In the process, it examines a large number of authors, some of them never studied in this context. Exploring the relationship between various late medieval disciplines, the book sheds new light on the problem of continuity vs. discontinuity between scholasticism and modern science. Beyond its historiographical purpose, this book also hopes to be a source of inspiration for present-day philosophers of science.
Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates on the Will, the Intellect, and Practical Knowledge
Willing and Understanding elucidates a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the will-intellect interplay in the late Middle Ages. Authored by prominent scholars in the field, the contributions offer different perspectives on the development of late medieval theories of the will. Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas—entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties—the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michałowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Łukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.
Wir Schwestern
1133 gründeten Markgraf Leopold III. und seine Gemahlin Agnes in Klosterneuburg ein Männerkonvent der Augustiner-Chorherren und eine Gemeinschaft von Chorfrauen als Doppelkloster. Während andernorts Frauenkonvente spätestens im 13. Jh, aufgelöst wurden, blieb der Klosterneuburger bis 1568 erhalten. In die 1133 gegründete Gemeinschaft traten Mädchen, junge Frauen und adelige Witwen ein. Ehefrauen lebten auf Zeit beim Konvent, wenn ihre Männer abwesend waren. Während andernorts die Doppelklosterkonstruktion meist im 12. oder spätestens 13. Jh. aufgegeben und der Frauenkonvent aufgelöst wurde, blieb er in Klosterneuburg bis 1568 erhalten. Die Frauen waren hier so erfolgreich, dass sie sich 1261 um das Frauenstift Sankt Jakob in Klosterneuburg erweiterten. Nach der Auflösung im 16. Jh. fielen ihr Hab und Gut, ihre Kunst, ihre Bücher und der Grundbesitz an das Augustiner Chorherrenstift. Was waren die Aufgaben der Schwestern? Welche Heiligen haben sie verehrt? Was haben sie gelesen, gebetet und gelehrt? Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben der lange vergessenen Chorfrauen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwickeln.
Akademische Festkulturen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Für die Zeit vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart und für Europa und Nordamerika untersuchen in 16 Beiträgen renommierte Autoren und Autorinnen unterschiedliche Facetten der universitären Festkultur und der Inszenierung von feierlichen Anlässen: Jubiläumsfeiern wie religiöse Zeremonien, Graduierungsfeste und Memorialfeiern oder Depositionsakte und schliesslich Festlichkeiten aus Anlass politischer Stellungnahmen. Neben den institutionellen, organisatorischen und rechtlichen Belangen werden theatralische und musikalische Aufführungspraktiken sowie materielle Relikte der Festkulturen behandelt. Der Band enthält Beiträge von Joachim Bauer, Heike Bungert, Ulrike Denk, Pieter Dhondt, Markus Drüding, Marian Füssel, Matthias Hensel, Richard Kirwan, Renate Kohn, Harald Lönnecker, Winfried Müller, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Karl Ubl, Wolfgang Eric Wagner, Marija Wakounig und Susana Zapke.
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency: An Early Modern Reformed Voice is the first study in English entirely devoted to the theology of Voetius, a leading figure of Reformed scholasticism. Andreas J. Beck examines Voetius’s life and his concept of theology. Moreover, he provides a fresh and detailed analysis of Voetius’s views on God, freedom, and contingency in the context of related early modern debates. Special attention is given to transconfessional relations and relevant backgrounds in patristic theology, medieval scholasticism, and the European Reformations. This study also advances our knowledge of scholarly practices in theological education at early modern Reformed universities in the Low Countries.
Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918
Here is Lukács among friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of 39. Lukács emerges as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a figure whose dilemmas were echoed in the lives of other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.
