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  • 14 - Ancient Logic in the Middle Ages

  • from III - The Legacy of Ancient Logic
  • Edited by Luca Castagnoli, University of Oxford, Paolo Fait, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic
    Published online:
    29 April 2023
    Print publication:
    02 March 2023, pp 301-318

  • Summary

    Aristotelian logic was the basis for various traditions of medieval logic: Greek, Armenian, Syriac, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. This chapter will concentrate on just two, the Latin and the Arabic. They are certainly the two great traditions of logic in the Middle Ages and the very different ways in which they use the ancient heritage makes a fascinating comparison. A fuller discussion would certainly include the other four traditions: they are omitted here, not just due to considerations of space, but also because scholarship in these areas has not yet reached the stage to make a survey possible.

  • Chapter 8 - Jean de Meun, Boethius, and Thirteenth-Century Philosophy

  • from Part III - Unfinished Business
  • Edited by Jonathan Morton, Tulane University, Louisiana, Marco Nievergelt, University of Warwick
  • With John Marenbon
  • Book:
    The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
    Published online:
    17 June 2020
    Print publication:
    16 July 2020, pp 173-193

  • Summary

    Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy was one of the philosophical works best known to Jean de Meun, and later in life, after he had written his part of the Roman de la Rose, he would translate it into French. The Consolation is not, however, a straightforward philosophical treatise, but a work that uses a variety of literary forms (dialogue; the alternation of prose and verse; personification) in order, arguably, to convey a much more complex position than the ostensible conclusion of the argument made by Lady Philosophy. This complexity is due especially to Boethius’s reaction to what I call ‘the Problem of Paganism’.  Although the Consolation was widely read, closely studied and imitated or used in a whole variety of ways from the ninth century onwards, most of its medieval readers were not sensitive to these complexities. This contribution will investigate whether the Roman de la Rose shows that Jean de Meun is an exception to the rule. It will do so by looking at the relation between his part of the poem, the Consolation and the Problem of Paganism.

The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
  • Edited by Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt
  • With John Marenbon
  • Published online:
    17 June 2020
    Print publication:
    16 July 2020
  • The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of medieval poetry as a whole.

  • Chapter 12 - Logic

  • from Part III - Types of Books
  • Edited by Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Rodney Thomson, University of Tasmania
  • Book:
    The European Book in the Twelfth Century
    Published online:
    03 July 2018
    Print publication:
    26 July 2018, pp 215-239

  • Summary

    This chapter examines how factors such as the combination of texts in compilations, accumulations of textual additions and visual features, and the composition of associated commentaries, affected the format of manuscripts of the Latin classics produced in the long twelfth century. By investigating the intellectual dynamics which contributed to the heterogeneity of twelfth-century classical manuscripts, the chapter argues that to understand the revival of interest in the classics in this period, one must look not only at what was read, but also at the material forms in which such texts were encountered by medieval scholars.

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