Il volume contiene la prima edizione critica dello Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum di Pietro d’Alvernia, ideato e realizzato come continuazione del commento alla Politica interrotto da Tommaso d’Aquino e divenuto, insieme a questo, il commento alla Politica, l’interpretazione imprescindibile per quanti, nei secoli successivi, avrebbero interpretato o fatto ricorso all’opera aristotelica. Già affetto da errori nella prima fase della sua trasmissione – la fase che vide l’allestimento dell’exemplar universitario a partire da un codice trascritto e meticolosamente revisionato da uno scriba assai prossimo all’autore, se non dall’autore stesso –, lo Scriptum era finora disponibile in una versione che, esito di una plurisecolare vicenda editoriale, lo aveva velato di una patina umanistica, alterandone il vocabolario, sopprimendone o modificandone i contenuti. Precede il testo del commento, seguendone le scansioni in capitoli, il testo latino della Politica nella traduzione di Gugliemo di Moerbeke, in un’edizione ‘pragmatica’.

This first study of the late medieval Greek churches in Cyprus investigates over 300 buildings. It addresses the historical and artistic context of these churches, the first part containing more traditional methodological approaches such as the analysis of stylistic developments – the exchange between Western, Gothic and Eastern, Levantine architectural idioms and their formal impact on local Byzantine traditions. The second part discusses individual and collective identities and their negotiation through architectural works within the multicultural Cypriot society. The study contributes to the apprehension of dynamics of cultural exchange in late medieval eastern Mediterranean.

The aim of bringing together these works in this volume is to explore, through specific studies, the reception of certain aspects of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Patristics and the philosophy of Late Antiquity, in medieval Latin thought and in medieval Georgia (especially with Ioane Petritsi), as well as with certain Renaissance authors. This volume thus provides new and stimulating insights to broaden our understanding of the impact of the two great currents which mark Western philosophy.

A set of studies that offers a global vision of the literary representations of the animal and plant world in the brief narratives of the Middle Ages (fable, example, proverb, lais, etc.). The volume focuses in particular on Spanish literature, but it also includes other Romance languages and Latin literature.

Thomasin von Zerclaere's 'Welsh Guest' is a Middle High German behavioural theory from around 1215/16, with an extensive picture cycle. At first glance, the text may appear to be a jumbled collection of individual admonitions, undergirded by recordings from encyclopaedic sources of knowledge. The present study shows that, on closer inspection, the numerous individual admonitions combine to form a well-planned, coherent whole that aims to initiate cognitive processes in the recipient.

The work of Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420) is a reflection of the intellectual questions of the late Middle Ages. His texts reveal a pronounced interest in the comprehensive order that connects man with the universe. This study reconstructs the intellectual approach of the philosopher and theologian from Cambrai, looking at two complementary axes: microcosm and macrocosm. The philosophical writings on the human soul are thus placed in relation to the late treatises on the world view.

Ensemble d’études qui offre une vision globale des représentations littéraires du monde animal et végétal dans le récit bref du Moyen Âge (fable, exemple, proverbe, lais, etc.). Le volume se concentre en particulier sur la littérature espagnole, mais il ne néglige pas les autres langues romaines ni la littérature latine.

The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced significant German-language manuscripts, which this work hopes to analyze with an orientation to the background of the former areas of learning within the convent. According to the analysis, these texts bear witness to an intensified effort at instruction, which, with respect to annunciation and catechesis strongly reflects on German as a vernacular language. In this way the study provides a window into the arrangement of vernacular instruction and education in the first decades of the 15th century.

The Middle High German treatise ›Forty Bundles of Myrrh of Christ's Passion‹ combines traditional exegesis of the Song of Songs with detailed instructions for the correct contemplation of the Passion of Christ by means of fictive dialogues. The treatise, which was probably written for beguines in the first half of the 15th century in the Hospitaller commandery zum Grünen Wörth in Strasbourg, is analyzed and edited for the first time, in three parts divided into two volumes. The first part traces the function of the biblical passage Ct 1,12 within the exegetical tradition and examines the form and content of the ›Forty Bundles of Myrrh of Christ's Passion‹. In the second part, the surviving textual witnesses (eleven manuscripts and two copies of an incunable edition) are catalogued as accurately as possible and located within the context of the manuscript transmission. Finally, the third part offers the first edition of this extensive Passion treatise in an easily readable form and makes the most important variants as well as the different textual levels accessible through a critical apparatus.