...Matthew Milner Recent work in historical philosophy on the Aristotelian concept of qualities — that is, hot, cold, wet, and dry, the fundamental causal agents of the natural world — offers a moment to reconsider the connections between medicine, religion, and natural philosophy in late medieval...

...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...

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... discourses could act as a vehicle for spiritual and psychophysiological change. Combining cognitive theories that view the heart as the tablet of memory with a physiology of the heart as a breathing organ that creates and circulates spirit, the Livre synthesizes medicine, natural philosophy, and theology...

... inevitably conjures up the supernatural and therefore also its own supersession. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 medieval natural philosophy cosmology concept of nature physical matter principle of contradiction ...

... of moral and religious formation. 116  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 Francis Bacon, natural philosophy, and Adamic labor At first glance, Francis Bacon’s approach to the study of nature might seem to be fundamentally at odds with those traditional approaches...

... of society” in the “late Middle Ages” (139). The whole chapter and the part of the book to which it belongs, “Transition,” is an example of the brazenly arbi- trary imposition of the origins of modernity, with its postmodern philosophies and social forms, onto a medieval theologian...

... is Aristotelian natural philosophy, 98  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 which relies wholly on sense perception, and so is common to everyone, by contrast with Christian teaching, which relies on revelation. The conflicts in question were on such issues as whether the world had...

... Following Pierre Duhem’s interpretation, late medieval and early modern theological thought played a major role in scientific development by introducing new quantitative per- 632 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.3 / 2001 spectives into natural philosophy. Although lacking any...

... histoire médiévale, vol. 44. Paris: CNRS éditions, 2018. 205 pp. eur 50.00. Hillman, Jennifer, and Elizabeth C. Tingle, eds. Soul Travel: Spiritual Jour- neys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. vi, 282 pp., 7 figs. $82.95. Hurlock, Kathryn. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c...

... as nothing less than a miracle, a kind of belief perhaps reserved for saints alone. Building on Justice’s contention that medieval acts of belief internalize, and grapple with, “naturalizing or demystifying accounts” of faith typically associated with modernity, Albert Ascoli has gone so far...

... 7. Theological and philosophical legacies 8. Books and print 9. Nature and landscape 10. Architecture Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-028  © 2009 by Duke University Press 1. Editions...

... play well through disciplined habits of exercise. In Alasdair MacIntyre's extraordinary excavations of philosophy and intellectual history, the Reformation is by and large neglected as he traces a path from Aristotle to Hume and beyond. This special issue seeks to put the Reformation(s) back...

... of Medieval Religion. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2015. xv, 250 pp.; 4 maps, 1 fig., 2 tables. $99.00. 4. Medicine and science Cadden, John. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press...

... of difference 7. Jewish studies 8. Ritual 9. Courting and romance 10. Narrative structures, lyric effects 11. Experiencing nature and landscape 12. Visual culture Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:3, Fall 2007...

... of it can cast out the uninitiate. As a means of exchange between indi- viduals, secrets create networks—social (gossip), religious (confession), political (diplomacy), intellectual (magic, medicine, natural philosophy). A secret is an ethical event. To possess it can...

....; 79 figs. eur 42.00. Bakker, Paul J. J. M., ed. Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and Its Reception in the Latin West. De Wulf-­Mansion Centre Ancient and Medieval Philoso- phy, Series 1, vol. 50. Leuven, Belg.: Leuven University Press, in association with De Wulf-­Mansioncentrum, 2015. xiv, 249 pp...

....: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. xi, 536 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Farrell, Dominic. Traditions of Natural Law in Medieval Philosophy . Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 65. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. vii, 229 pp. Hardcover, ebook...

... and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (New York: Zone Books, 1998), 173. 8 Obviously, we know today that man/beast hybrids are not a true possibility. That is, interspecies sex cannot produce offspring. Having said that, though, a number of medieval and Renaissance texts show that people felt more unsure...

... in Europe from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Viella His- torical Research, vol. . Roma: Viella, pp. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines 425 7. The natural world Classen, Albrecht. Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading...