Idade Média

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world’s leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were o …

Those new to Gilson can get a sense of the theme that dominated most of his life’s work in the central essay on the historical significance of Thomism. Those familiar with him will perhaps be surpris …

Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and controversial life was marked by sharp care …

Combining vast erudition with a refusal to bow before the political pressures of the day, Muhammad’s Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam by Professor Tilman Nagel, one of the …

This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections betw …

The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe is a historical work by Dorothy Stimson. The book chronicles the development and acceptance of the heliocentric model of the solar syst …

It is the object of this work ‘to afford a guide for the perplexed, ‘ i.e. ‘to thinkers whose studies have brought them into collision with religion’ (p. 9), ‘who have studied philosophy and have acq …

Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers. Among today’s Italian philosophers, Massimo Cacciari is perhaps the most assi …

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of c …

Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an eleventh century theologian and philosopher. He is regarded as the father of Scholasticism, a philosophical school of thought that dominated the Middle Ages. He is n …