Philip Melanchthon (1497 1560), humanist and colleague of Martin Luther, is best known for his educational reforms, for which he earned the title Praeceptor Germaniae ...
Continue Reading →De Monarchia is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. With this text, the ...
Continue Reading →Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De Occulta Philosophia libri III) is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s study of occult philosophy, acknowledged as a significant contribution to the ...
Continue Reading →The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was the 19th ecumenical council of ...
Continue Reading →Le Morte D’Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory’s richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur’s birth, his ascendancy to the throne after ...
Continue Reading → The legend of Tristan and Isolde — the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love — achieved its most complete and ...
Continue Reading →Suger, the twelfth century abbot of Saint-Denis, has not received the respect and attention that he deserves. Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable have ...
Continue Reading →Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus’s work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings ...
Continue Reading → Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despite ...
Continue Reading →In On Being and Cognition Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of cognition by developing his doctrine of ...
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