MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
(c.300 CE - c.1400 CE)

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Topics:

• Medieval Literature

Feminist:

• Medieval Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Medieval Thought

Post-colonial:

• Medieval Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Medieval Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• Illinois Medieval Association

• Medieval Academy of America

• Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

• Reseau des Medievistes Belges de Langue Francaise

• Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM)

• Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

• Studies in Medievalism

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Logic and Heresy in the Middle Ages, Leeds Medieval Congress 2009, Leeds University, July 13-16

2008:

• 43rd International Medieval Studies Congress, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 8-11

2007:

• Continuities and Disruptions between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, June 15-16

• 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 10-13

2006:

• Medievalism and the Marvellous, 21st International Conference on Medievalism, Ohio State University, October 12-14

• Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX, College at Wise, University of Virginia, September 14-16

• World as Stage / Stage as World, Fourteenth Annual Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Symposium, August 4-5

• Posterior Analytics and Aristotelian Sciences in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Summer Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and the Aquinas and the Arabs Project, Marquette University, June 8-9

• 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 4-7

2005:

• 23rd International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, October 14-16

• Third Annual Midwestern Conference in Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, September 16-17

• 40th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 5-8

• New Medievalisms II, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, March 11-13

• Imagining Medieval Identities, 22nd Annual Conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, February 25-26

2004:

• Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), SUNY, Binghamton, October 22-23

• 19th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, University of New Brunswick, October 1-2

• Clash of Cultures, International Medieval Congress 2004, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, July 12-15

• 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 6-9

• Medieval Metaphysics, Sixth Henle Conference in the History of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, April 2-3

• The Central Ages: Periods and Boundaries, Illinois Medieval Association, Northwestern University, February 27-28

• Translatio or Transmission of Culture, Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February 12-14

2003:

• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, October 31-November 2

• Power and Authority: International Medieval Congress 2003, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, July 14-17

• 38th Congress International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 8-11

• Aquinas's Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations, Moral Theory, and Theological Context, St. Louis University, April 11-12

2002:

• 37th Congress International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 8-11

2001:

• 36th Congress International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 3-6

2000:

Annual:

• International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

• International Congress of the European Middle Ages (c. 300-1500), Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds

• International Conference on Medievalism, Studies in Medievalism (1986 - )

COURSES

• University of California, Davis: High Middle Ages (Roddy)
• Carleton University: 
  • Hellenistic and Early Medieval Philosophy (Dubrule)
  • Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation (Dubrule)
• Case Western University: Medieval Philosophy (Dippmann)
• Drury University: History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval (Ess)
• Maquarie University: Medieval Philosophy (Kilcullen)
• Maquarie University: Later Medieval Philosophy (Kilcullen)
• Southern Connecticut University: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (Gilliland)
• St. Thomas University: Medieval Philosophy (Magee)
• University of Sydney: The Medieval Intellectual Tradition (Kilcullen)
• University of Texas, Austin: Medieval Philosophy (Koons)

JOURNALS

• Comitatus: a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Essays in Medieval Studies

• Matheliende: Online Journal of Medieval Studies

• Medieval Philosophy and Theology or here

• Medieval Review

• Mystics Quarterly

• Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales

• Vivarium: an International Journal for the Philosophy and Intellectual Life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

'Early' Middle Ages:

• St. Augustine (354 - 430)

• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 - 524)

• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c.5th Century)

• Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c.815 – 877)

'High' Middle Ages:

• Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109)

• Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142)

• Peter Lombard (1095 - 1160)

• Albertus Magnus (1206 - 1280)

• St. Bonaventure (1221 - 1274)

• St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

'Late' Middle Ages:

• Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328)

• John Duns Scotus (1265 / 66 - 1308)

• Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

• William of Ockham (1280 - 1349)

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Hyman, Arthur, and James Walsh, eds.  Philosophy in the Middle Ages: the Classical, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.

    • Schoedinger, A. B. ed.  Readings in Medieval Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

  • Arts:
    • Bloom, Harold, ed.  Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present: Classical and Medieval.  New York: Chelsea, 1985.
    • Minnis, Alastair, and A. B. Scott, eds.  Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100 - c. 1375: the Commentary Tradition.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
    • Preminger, A., O. Hardison, and Kevin Kerrane, eds.  Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations.  New York: Fredereick Ungar, 1974.
    • Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans, eds.  The Idea of the Vernacular: an Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520.  University Park, PA: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.
  • Communication:
    • Miller, Joseph M., et al., eds.  Readings in Medieval Rhetoric.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1971.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

  • Arts:

  • Communication:

On-Line:

• General:

  • Kilcullen, John: Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History

• Arts:

• Communication:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Socio-Historical Context:

    • Holmes, George, ed.  The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe.  

  • General:

    • Armstong, D. M., ed.  Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1967.

    • Furley, David, ed.  From Aristotle to Augustine.  Vol. 2 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1999.
    • Gracia, Jorge J. E., and Timothy B. Noone, eds.  A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
    • Hoffmann, Tobias, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams, eds.  Das Problem der Willensschwäche in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie / The Problem of Weakness of Will in Medieval Philosophy.  Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
    • Kretzmann, Norman, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg, and Eleonore Stump, eds.  Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100–1600.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.
    • Marenbon, John, ed.  Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 3 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1998.
    • McGrade, A. S., ed.  Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
    • Metcalfe, Stephen, ed.  The Later Middle Ages.  New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981.

  • Arts:

    • Minnis, Alastair, and Ian Johnson, eds.  The Middle Ages.  Vol. 2 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Being:

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  • Communication:

    • Breisach, Ernst, ed.  Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography.  Kalamazoo: Western Michigan UP, 1985.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: a History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1974.

  • Human Nature:

    • Carruthers, Mary J.  The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.

    • Carruthers, Mary J.  The Book of Memory: a Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.

  • Knowledge:

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  • Morality:

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  • Philosophy / Theory:

  • Nature:

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  • Religion:

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  • Society:

    • Cheyette, Frederic, ed.  Lordship and Communitarianism in Medieval Europe.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Socio-Historical Context:
    • Adams, Jeremy.  Patterns of Medieval Society.
    • Bloch, Marc.  Feudal Society.
    • Cantor, Norman.  Medieval History.

    • Coleman, Janet.  Medieval Memories.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992

    • Davis, H.  Medieval Europe.
    • Grant, Edward.  The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
    • Grant, Edward.  Physical Science in the Middle Ages.  Cambridge: CUP, 1978.

    • Lindberg, David C.  Science in the Middle Ages.  Chicago: U fo Chicago P, 1980.

    • Mills, Robert.  Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture.  London: Reaktion, 2006.
    • Nirenberg, David.  Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.  
  • General:
    • Brown, Stephen.  "The Intellectual Context of Later Medieval Philosophy: Universities, Aristotle, Arts, Teleology."  Medieval Philosophy.  Ed. John Marenbon.  Vol. 3 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1998.  188-203.
    • Cantor, Norman.  Inventing the Middle Ages.  1989.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.  Vol. 3 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1953.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 2 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1950.

    • Gilson, Etienne.  History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages.  London: Sheed and Ward, 1955.

    • Hughes, Christopher.  "Medieval Philosophy."  Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.  517-573.
    • Johanssen, Karsten Friis.  A History of Ancient Philosophy from the Beginnings to Augustine.  London: Routledge, 1991.
    • Kaluza, Zenon.  "Later Medieval Philosophy, 1350-1500."  Medieval Philosophy.  Ed. John Marenbon.  Vol. 3 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1998.  426-451.
    • Kenny, Anthony.  Medieval Philosophy.   Volume 2 of A New History of Western Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
    • Luscombe, David.  Medieval Thought.  Vol. 2 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1997.
    • Marenbon, John.  "The Twelfth Century."  Medieval Philosophy.  Ed. John Marenbon.  Vol. 3 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1998.  150-187.
    • Martin, M. G. F., et al.  "Medieval Philosophy."  Philosophy Study Guide.  London: Aristotelian Society, 1997.  125-130. 
    • McKitterick, Rosamond, and John Marenbon.  "Philosophy and its Background in the Early Medieval West."  Medieval Philosophy.  Ed. John Marenbon.  Vol. 3 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1998.  96-119.
    • Minc, Alain.  Le Nouveau Moyen Âge. 
    • Rickaby, Joseph.  Scholasticism.  New York: Dodge, 1908.  (see on-line source below)
    • Russell, Bertrand.  "Catholic Philosophy."  History of Western Philosophy.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.S
      • Ch. II "Christianity During the First Four Centuries" (pp. 325-334)
      • Ch. XI "The Twelfth Century" (pp. 422-433)
      • Ch. XII "The Thirteenth Century" (pp. 434-443)
    • Sweeney, Eileen.  Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
    • Verbeke, G. The Presence of Stoicism in Medieval Thought.  Washington, 1983.
    • Weinberg, Julius Rudolph.  A Short History of Medieval Philosophy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1964.

  • Arts:

    • Atkins, J. W. H.  English Literary Criticism: the Medieval Phase.  London: Methuen, 1934.

    • Harland, Richard.  "Literary Theory in the Middle Ages."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  22-28. 

    • Minnis, Alastair.  Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages.  London: Scolar Press, 1984.

  • Being:

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  • Communication:

    • Dunbar, H. F.  Symbolism in Medieval Thought.  1929.

    • McKeon, Richard.  "Poetry and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: the Renaissance of Rhetoric."  Modern Philology (1946): .  

      • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  297-318.

    • McKeon, Richard.  "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages."  Speculum 17 (1942): 1-32. 
      • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  260-296.
    • Robins, R. H.  "The Middle Ages."  A Short History of Linguistics.  New York: Longman, 1967.  4th Ed. 1997.  79-109.

  • Human Nature:

    • Pasnau, Robert.  Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

  • Knowledge:

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  • Morality:

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  • Nature:

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  • Philosophy / Theory:

  • Religion:

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  • Society:

On-Line:

• Catholic Encyclopedia:

  • Fathers of the Church

  • Neo-Scholasticism

  • Scholasticism

• Columbia Encyclopedia: Scholasticism

• Hooker, Richard:

  • Early Christianity

  • European Middle Ages

• Meier-Oeser, Stephan: Medieval Semiotics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Rickaby, Joseph: Scholasticism

• Spade, Paul Vincent: Medieval Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Sweeney, Eileen: Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Utz, Richard, and Jesse Swan: What is Medievalism?

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Category Middle Ages:

    • Feudalism

    • Medieval Philosophy

    • Middle Ages

    • Scholasticism

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australasia:

• Australasia:

  • University of Sydney: Centre for Medieval Studies

Canada:

• University of Toronto: 

  • Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

  • St. Michael's College: Medieval Studies Programme

  • Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Europe:

• Belgium:

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

• UK:

  • University of Kent: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

  • Leeds University: Centre for Medieval Studies

USA:

• Arizona University System: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Boston College: Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology

• University of Connecticut: Medieval Studies Program

• Duke University: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Fordham University: Center for Medieval Studies

• Marquette University: Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

• University of Notre Dame: Medieval Institute

• State University of New York, Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Ohio State University: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute

• Yale University: Medieval Studies Program

WWW GATEWAYS

• Halsall, Paul: Internet Medieval Sourcebook

• Harbin, Beau (Catholic University of America): NetSERF: the Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

• Irvine, Martin, and Deborah Everhart: The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

• Kilcullen, John:  Teaching Materials on Medieval Philosophy

• Mediev-L Home Page

• Mosser, Dan: WWW Medieval Resources

• Schmutz, Jacob: Scholasticon

• Spade, Paul Vincent:  Medieval Logic and Philosophy

• Whitworth College: Medieval Thought

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