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Irven M. Resnick
Presents a captivating study of long-held medieval scientific theories that predisposed Jews to certain types of offensive behaviour or even to communicate certain illnesses and disease. By arguing for a…
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This volume makes available in their entirety Peter the Venerable’s twin polemics against Islam - A Summary of the entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect of the…
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Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is self-contradictory. This study of the first Latin treatise on omnipotence places it in its…
Petrus Alfonsi
Presents the history of Christian anti-Jewish polemics. As a convert from Judaism, Petrus Alfonsi introduced an intimate knowledge of Jewish literature and contemporary practice absent from earlier Christian sources. This…
The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) was groundbreaking for having introduced to medieval Europe a series of canons that sought to regulate encounters between Christians and Jews and Muslims. Its canon…
Odo, of Tournai
To his contemporaries, Odo of Tournai-master of the cathedral school of Tournai, first abbot of the restored monastery of St. Martin of Tournai, and, later, Bishop of Cambrai-was one of…
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Peter Damian
Concluding the series of Peter Damian’s Letters in English translation, this book includes Letters 151-180, which are Damian’s most passionate exhortations on behalf of eremitic ideals. He was equally concerned…
Irven M. Resnick,Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr
The first scholarly biography in English for nearly a century of Albertus Magnus.
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Albert the Great
Offers a translation of Aristotle’s work. This work criticizes other medieval physicians and natural philosophers - on comparative anatomy, human physiology, sexuality, procreation, and embryology. It is suitable for medievalists…
St. Albert the Great
The Dominican scholar Albert the Great was drawn into the university debates in Paris in the 1240s and responded in the text translated here for the first time. Albert’s On…
Peter Damian,Saint
This volume, the sixth in the series of volumes containing the 180 letters written by the 11th-century monk Peter Damian, contains careful and annotated translations of Damian’s Letters 121-150. Written…
