The Medieval Aristotle

Inside view of fifty years of the Aristoteles Latinus project, a cornerstone of the study of medieval intellectual history.

For fifty years, the Aristoteles Latinus project has deepened our understanding of how Aristotle entered the Latin Middle Ages. Based in Leuven and rooted in early twentieth-century international collaboration, the Aristoteles Latinus project has traced the complex paths by which Aristotle’s works were translated, read, and transmitted in medieval times. This volume brings together studies first presented at a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the project's residence in Leuven and offers leading international scholars’ perspectives on the project’s ongoing work, ranging from manuscript traditions, philology and translation to natural philosophy, logic, metaphysics, and the study of medieval manuscripts. Together, the contributions show how deeply Aristotelian thought permeated medieval intellectual culture and highlight the continued vitality and range of current research on Aristoteles Latinus. The book will be of interest to historians of philosophy, medievalists, and philologists and anyone curious about medieval intellectual life.

"The Medieval Aristotle" was written by Pietro B. Rossi, Ciro Giacomelli, Andrea Aldo Robiglio, Riccardo Saccenti, Stephen M. Metzger, Silvia Donati, Marta Borgo, Davide Falessi, mostafa najafi, Luca Burzelli, Mario Meliadò, Elena Berti, Marilena Panarelli and Ioana Curut.

Luca Burzelli is postdoctoral researcher in History of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Siegen, and member of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre at the KU Leuven. He received the Thomas Ricklin International Award 2024 for his book ‘Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements: A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts’.

"The Medieval Aristotle" was edited by Nena Bobovnik and Clelia V. Crialesi.

Nena Bobovnik is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven.

Clelia V. Crialesi is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at CNRS-SPHERE in Paris, and previously held an FWO postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven within the Aristoteles Latinus project.

Yes, "The Medieval Aristotle" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 aims to publish at least two volumes a year and accepts monographs as well as thematically coherent edited volumes in English (without excluding the possibility of French, German, or Italian contributions to edited volumes). Manuscripts should be 80.000 to 120.000 words in length.

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

Proposals

Proposals and enquiries can be sent to  editorial coordinator Russell L. Friedman. Please send a preliminary abstract (3-4 pp.) and a short bio. Upon approval of this abstract, the full manuscript will be submitted to international peer review.

Please make use of the submission form to present the full manuscript to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.

Links & Resources

Yes, "The Medieval Aristotle" is published Open Access. It is available under a BY-NC-ND license.

Publication of "The Medieval Aristotle" was funded by KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access
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Introduction
Nena Bobovnik, Clelia V. Crialesi, and Lisa Devriese

Gigantum umeris insidentes: The Aristoteles Latinus and the Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi
Pietro B. Rossi

The Latin Translation of the De mirabilibus auscultationibus by Bartholomew of Messina: Remarks on its Manuscript Transmission and its Greek Sources
Ciro Giacomelli

Doubting Thomas: A Hesitation in Aquinas While Re-reading Aristotle
Andrea Aldo Robiglio

Exploring Aristotle’s Words: The tabulae librorum philosophorum in the ms. Pisa, Bibliotheca Cathariniana, 124 and the Aristotelian Corpus in the Mid-Thirteenth Century
Riccardo Saccenti

The Meaning of Ut excedentia et excessa and the Curious Case of William of Moerbeke’s Translation of Metaphysica 5.15 (1020b26–28)
Stephen M. Metzger

Thirteenth-Century Latin Commentators of the Metaphysica on the Relationship Between Alpha Meizon and Alpha Elatton: A Problem of Translation and Interpretation
Silvia Donati

Aristotle on Being as True in Greek, Arabic, and Latin: Metaphysics Δ.7, 1017a31–35, Across Three Philosophical Traditions
Marta Borgoa, Davide Falessib, and mostafa najafic

The Aristotelian Library of Nicholas of Cusa: The Case of the Metaphysica
Luca Burzelli and Mario Meliadò

Peter of Abano as Reader of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Physiognomonica
Elena Berti

On the Appetite of Plants: Averroean Elements in Commentaries on the De plantis (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century)
Marilena Panarelli

Aristotelizing Pseudo-Aristotle in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts of the Book of the Apple (Sefer ha-tapuaḥ)
Ioana Curuț

Index nominum (ante 1800)
Index codicum manu scriptorum

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "The Medieval Aristotle" is 10.11116/9789461667731.