The late Cusan treatise “Vom Nichtanderen” (1462/63) deals with the nature, being and knowability of God. It is a speculative theology with a methodological-philosophical ...
Continue Reading → At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty ...
Continue Reading → Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, ...
Continue Reading → This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 AD, that deal with political matters. The ...
Continue Reading → An appropriate motto for Augustine’s great work On the Trinity is ‘faith in search of understanding’. In this treatise Augustine offers a part-theological, part-philosophical ...
Continue Reading → Along with his Confessions, The City of God is undoubtedly St. Augustine’s most influential work. In the context of what begins as a lengthy ...
Continue Reading → The work is not a complete autobiography, as it was written during Saint Augustine’s early 40s and he lived long afterwards, producing another important ...
Continue Reading → The Summa Theologica is a compendium of theology written by Thomas Aquinas between 1265 and 1273. In Roman Catholicism it is the sum of ...
Continue Reading →One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, ...
Continue Reading →The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer ...
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