Β A pioneer in the creation of a Christian literature, Prudentius is generally regarded as the greatest of the Christian Latin poets, and his legacy ...
Continue Reading βΒ Simon, whom men call Peter, God’s chief disciple, once as the sun was setting, when the evening turns from gold to red, had pulled ...
Continue Reading βMore than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285β1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should normally ...
Continue Reading βΒ This volume contains selections of Ockham’s philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition ...
Continue Reading βΒ Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “Great Charter of Freedoms”), commonly called Magna Carta is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King ...
Continue Reading βLittle is known of Villard de Honnecourt, apart from the fact that his Sketchbook is one of the most treasured documents in art history. Active ...
Continue Reading βThe Constitutions of Clarendon were a set of legislative procedures passed by Henry II of England in 1164. The Constitutions were composed of 16 articles ...
Continue Reading βΒ 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 βΒ 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 βΒ 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, ...
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