Meister Eckhart and Jan Van Ruusbroec: A Comparison
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The Culture of Force and Farce: Fourteenth-Century Japanese Warfare
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Infinity, Continuity, and Composition: The Contribution of Gregory of Rimini
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The Women of Papal Avignon. A new Source: The Liber Divisionis of 1371
When the papal curia settled permanently in Avignon in 1316, a mass of immigrants flooded the city. The core of the Avignonese population, some five to six thousand natives, was augmented by thousands of newcomers.
A traitor’s death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire
A traitor’s death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire By Mary E. Lewis Antiquity, Vol.82 (2008) Abstract:…
Analogy and Formal Distinction: On the Logical Basis of Wyclif’s Metaphysics
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Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom?
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? Langston, Douglas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract In his “Duns Scotus…
Nicholas of Autrecourt and William of Ockham on Atomism, Nominalism, and the Ontology of Motion
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On a Sophisma of Richard Kilvington and a Problem of Analysis
On a Sophisma of Richard Kilvington and a Problem of Analysis Katz, Bernard D. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996)…
Robert Holcot, O.P., on Prophecy, the Contingency of Revelation, and the Freedom of God
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Ockham and Ambiguity
Ockham and Ambiguity Sinkler, Georgette Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 4 (1994) Abstract In the Sophistichi eknchi, Aristotle identifies thirteen types of fallacies…
Thomas Wylton’s Question “An contingit dare ultimum rei permanentis in esse”
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Nominalism Meets Indivisibilism
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The Demon’s Parchment: A Medieval Noir
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Duns Scotus on Signification
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The Making of a Pandemic: Bubonic Plague in the 14th Century
In October 1347, several Genoese ships pulled into port at Messina, Sicily. The harbor master noticed crew members who were clearly ill disembarking and quickly sent the ships away. It was too late; within a matter of days, people were dead or dying in the city. The plague had arrived in Europe.
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality Frank, William A. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract John Duns Scotus teaches…
Ibn al-Lihyani: sultan of Tunis and would-be Christian convert (1311–18)
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Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role F. Brown, Stephen F. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract Pitros Philargis…
Bazylika Mariacka Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny – Gdańsk
It is the largest brick church in the world. Until 1945 it was the biggest Evangelical Lutheran church in the world and has…
The 1335 Meeting of Kings in Visegrad
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Stubbs, Steel, and Richard II as Insane: The Origin and Evolution of an English Historiographical Myth
‘Richard II had become dangerous, perhaps dangerously mad. His final breakdown is . . . tragic…’
Before and after the Black Death: money, prices, and wages in fourteenth-century England
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called ‘Golden Age of the English Labourer’, lasting until the early 16th century.
Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French warfare, 1337-1360
Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French warfare, 1337-1360 By Timothy J. Runyan American Neptune, v.46 (1986) Introduction: The most consuming military and naval conflict of later…
Calculating the Synod? A network analysis of the synod and the episcopacy in the Register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the years 1379–1390
Calculating the Synod? A network analysis of the synod and the episcopacy in the Register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the years…