Medievalists.net » Albert the Great http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 That Melodious Linguist: Eloquence and Piety in Christian and Islamic Songbirds http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:52:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42560 That Melodious Linguist: Eloquence and Piety in Christian and Islamic Songbirds Cam Lindley Cross University of Chicago, December 8 (2010) Abstract “Birds,” writes Albertus Magnus, “generally call more than other animals. This is due to the lightness of their spirits.” Although Albertus here employs “lightness” (levitas) as a technical term, the broader valences of the word […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/feed/ 0 Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/06/cryptozoology-in-the-medieval-and-modern-worlds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/06/cryptozoology-in-the-medieval-and-modern-worlds/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 20:10:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31563 Albertus Magnus’s thirteenth-century work, De animalibus, a lengthy compilation based on Aristotle and on a handful of commentators, is as close as the Middle Ages comes to a systematic natural history in our understanding of the term.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/06/cryptozoology-in-the-medieval-and-modern-worlds/feed/ 0 A medieval Arabic analysis of motion at an instant : the Avicennan sources to the forma fluens/fluxus formae debate http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:37:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31194 The first and foremost topic of classical and medieval physics is the concept of motion
(Grk. kine ̄sis, Arb. h ̇ araka, Lat. motio). Within the complex of issues and problems associated with motion, the question ‘in which category does motion itself belong?’ occupied a position of considerable importance in scholastic natural philosophy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/a-medieval-arabic-analysis-of-motion-at-an-instant-the-avicennan-sources-to-the-forma-%ef%ac%82uens%ef%ac%82uxus-formae-debate/feed/ 0 Sex Difference in Medieval Theology and Canon Law: A Tribute to Joan Cadden http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/20/sex-difference-in-medieval-theology-and-canon-law-a-tribute-to-joan-cadden/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/20/sex-difference-in-medieval-theology-and-canon-law-a-tribute-to-joan-cadden/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:32:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17287 Meanings of Sex Difference draws on a very wide range of sources, cross- ing and re-crossing traditional boundaries between the disciplines. Joan Cadden also pays particular attention to the cultural and social milieux these sources were produced in; to the assumptions and expectations of authors and readers; to questions of form, style, and presentation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/20/sex-difference-in-medieval-theology-and-canon-law-a-tribute-to-joan-cadden/feed/ 0 Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/relations-without-polyadic-properties-albert-the-great-on-the-nature-and-ontological-status-of-relations/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/relations-without-polyadic-properties-albert-the-great-on-the-nature-and-ontological-status-of-relations/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:35:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14707 Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations Brower, Jeffrey E. (Purdue University) Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol.83, (2001) Abstract I think it would be fair to say that, until about 1900, philosophers were generally reluctant to admit the existence of what are nowadays called polyadic properties (for our […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/relations-without-polyadic-properties-albert-the-great-on-the-nature-and-ontological-status-of-relations/feed/ 0 A First Glance at Albert the Great’s Teachings on Analogy of Words http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/05/a-first-glance-at-albert-the-greats-teachings-on-analogy-of-words/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/05/a-first-glance-at-albert-the-greats-teachings-on-analogy-of-words/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:15:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10936 A First Glance at Albert the Great’s Teachings on Analogy of Words Tremblay, Bruno (Universite Laval) Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract Although any fair-minded reader will readily admit that Albert the Great was surpassed in solidity and clarity by his most famous pupil, Thomas Aquinas, his writings are generally of […]

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