Bernd Goehring

 

 

 

Kloster Einsiedeln

 

 

Medieval Philosophy

 

I. General Tools and Bibliographies

 

Gracia, Jorge J. E., and Noone, Timothy B., eds., A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

 

Kretzmann, Norman/Kenny, Anthony/Pinborg, Jan, eds., The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

 

Schönberger, Rolf, and Kible, Brigitte, eds., Repertorium edierter Texte des Mittelalters aus dem Bereich der Philosophie und angrenzender Gebiete. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994.

 

Schulthess, Peter, and Imbach, Ruedi, eds., Die Philosophie im lateinischen Mittelalter. Ein Handbuch mit einem bio-bibliographischen Repertorium. Zürich: Artemis, 1996.

 

 

II. History of Medieval Philosophy

 

Beckmann, Jan P./Honnefelder, Ludger/Schrimpf, Gangolf/Wieland, Georg, eds., Philosophie im Mittelalter. Entwicklungslinien und Paradigmen. Hamburg: Meiner, 1987.

 

Burch, George Bosworth, Early Medieval Philosophy. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1951.

 

Copleston, Frederick C., Medieval Philosophy. (1952) New York: Harper & Row, 1961.

 

Evans, Gillian R., Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages. London; New York: Routledge, 1993. (Ch. 3: “Knowing and Language”)

 

Frank, Daniel H., and Leaman, Oliver, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

Gilson, Étienne, The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy. (The Gifford Lectures 1931-1932) Transl. by A. H. C. Downes. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940.

 

Gilson, Étienne, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages. New York: Random House, 1955.

 

Haren, Michael, Medieval Thought. The Western Intellectual Tradition from Antiquity to the Thirteenth Century. (1985) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 21992.

 

Kleinschmidt, Harald, Understanding the Middle Ages. The Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000. (Ch. VIII: “Action III: Thinking” – on verbum)

 

Knowles, David, The Evolution of Medieval Thought. New York: Random House, 1962.

 

Kobusch, Theo, ed., Philosophen des Mittelalters. Eine Einführung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000.

 

Libera, Alain de, La Philosophie médiévale. (1993) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 31998.

 

Luscombe, David, Medieval Thought. (A History of Western Philosophy: II) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

Marenbon, John, ed., Routledge History of Philosophy Volume III: Medieval Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 1998.

 

Weinberg, Julius R., A Short History of Medieval Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.

 

 

III. Texts (Anthologies)

 

Fairweather, Eugene R., ed., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham. Edited and Translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956.

 

Lerner, Ralph, and Mahdi, Muhsin, eds., Medieval Political Philosophy. (1963) Ithaca/NY: Cornell University Press, 1972.

 

Shapiro, Herman, Medieval Philosophy: Selected Readings from Augustine to Buridan. Edited and Introduced by Herman Shapiro. New York: Random House, 1964.

 

Spade, Paul Vincent, Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

 

 

IV. Authors

 

Augustine (354-430)

 

Boethius (c. 480-524/5)

 

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) (980-1037)

 

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

 

Peter Abelard (1079-1142)

 

Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (c. 1126-1198)

 

Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253)

 

Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280)

 

Bonaventure (1217-1274)

 

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

 

Henry of Ghent (†1293)

 

Godfrey of Fontaines (†1306/09)

 

James of Viterbo (c. 1255-1307/8)

 

Giles of Rome (†1316)

 

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

 

John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

 

William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347)

 

 

 


 

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