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Storia di san Tommaso d'Aquino
Si direbbe – afferma Inos Biffi – che Tommaso d’Aquino sia come avvolto e nascosto dalle sue opere, che in certo modo ne celano i tratti della persona, le radici storiche dalle quali è sorta e gli eventi che l’hanno contrassegnata. In realtà, non sono mancati al Dottore Angelico biografi attenti e precise documentazioni sulla sua vita. Risalta tra queste la più antica Storia di san Tommaso d’Aquino (Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino). Redatta tra il 1318 e il 1323 da Guglielmo da Tocco in vista della canonizzazione dell’Aquinate, essa rappresenta, con gli Atti dell’inchiesta di Napoli, la principale fonte sulla vita dell’Angelico. Più volte rimaneggiata, la Storia si costituisce di due parti: la Vita, composta da 70 capitoli, e la raccolta dei Miracoli, che si presenta come una sorta di diario del postulatore della causa, in cui alla narrazione di 145 miracoli si affianca un resoconto sullo sviluppo del processo di canonizzazione. Allo schema agiografico tradizionale, Tocco aggiunge una sezione ulteriore, mirata a rendere giustizia dell’attività filosofica e teologica del futuro santo.
A Companion to Pietro Aretino
An interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most prolific and controversial figures of early modern Europe. This volume is comprised of seven sections, each devoted to a specific aspect Aretino’s life and works.
Christianity, Latinity, and Culture
The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale’s studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla’s works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla’s life and, in Camporeale’s reading, summing up Valla’s multi-faceted thought.
Painting in Renaissance Sie
Catalog of an exhibition which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Dec. 20, 1988. This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. Two introductory essays survey fifteenth-century Sienese painting, and individual entries examine 139 key works in exhaustive detail, presenting new insights into long-debated issues of interpretation and attribution, and often utilizing previously unpublished material. Most of the major paintings are reproduced in color and supplemented with illustrations of related comparative works.
The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages
Joachim of Fiore proclaimed a philosophy of history which exercised a powerful influence in succeeding centuries. This book traces the influence of his prophecies concerning a Third Age of the Spirit to come, as later expressed in the themes of New Spiritual Men, Last World Emperor, Angelic Pope, and Renovatio Mundi. It shows that these ideas were not only the mainspring of various heterodox groups, but also engaged the attention of certain church leaders, university scholars, Renaissance thinkers, Protestant theologians, and political rulers down to the seventeenth century.
Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430 (2 vols.)
In Coinage and Money Julian Baker offers a complete monetary history of medieval Greece, encompassing numismatic and documentary sources, and contributing to the general historiography.
Christendom and Its Discontents
From the eleventh century onward, Latin Christendom was torn by discontent and controversy. As the Church and secular rulers defined more clearly than ever before the laws and institutions on which they based their power, they demanded greater uniformity and obedience to their authority. The essays in this book cast new light on the dynamics of repression, highlighting the controversies and discontent that troubled medieval society. Looking especially at the mechanisms underlying the dissemination of heterodoxy and its repression, the religious aspirations of women, the fate of non-Christian minorities in Europe, and changing boundaries between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the authors provide a new understanding of the Church's response to the diversity of belief and practice by which it was confronted.
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The person and his work
Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's works, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin. "This is the introduction to Thomas: presenting all the known facts of his life and work, tracing the themes of his writing out of his juvenilia, and following the influence of his thought in the years immediately after his death."--First Things "The most up-to-date biography available."--Choice
A Companion to Joachim of Fiore
This is an extensive introduction to Joachim of Fiore's life, works, and legacy of this medieval abbot and apocalyptic seer, who predicted the perfection of humankind in a future Third Age of the Holy Spirit.
The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe
Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007 twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume. The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. The second and third sections move to the later Middle Ages, when the Hospitallers had their centre on Rhodes, and military and charitable activities in the E...
