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.

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

Nena Bobovnik

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

Clelia V. Crialesi

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.

Lisa Devriese

Lisa Devriese is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and Director of the Aristoteles Latinus project.

Pietro B. Rossi

Ciro Giacomelli

Andrea Aldo Robiglio

Riccardo Saccenti

Stephen M. Metzger

Silvia Donati

Marta Borgo

Davide Falessi

mostafa najafi

Luca Burzelli

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’.

Mario Meliadò

Elena Berti

Marilena Panarelli

Ioana Curut