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Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates /

Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates / edited by Dragos Calma. - 1 online resource. - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, volume 22 1871-188x ; Brill Open E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004270107 . - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 22. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820. .

"The majority of contributions reunited in this volume were first presented during the first of the three sessions of the conference "Les Elements de theologie et le Livre des causes du Ve au XVIIe siecle". It took place at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Paris, on 13-14 November 2015. The second took place on 12-13t February 2016, and the third on 14-15-16 April 2016."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates / Liber de causis -- Tradition exégétique : âges, styles et formes d’ une réception par le commentaire / La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles) / The De causis in Thomas of York / Le Liber de causis et l’ Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises : Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge) / Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiens / From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the Great / Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and His (?) Questions on the Metaphysics / Duns Scot et le Liber de causis / Sine secundaria: Thomas d’ Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’ occasionalisme / The Liber de causis in Some Central European Quodlibets / Proclus -- Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe siècles / Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de Proclus / Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’ importance du Commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Éléments de théologie / Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli / Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles Charlier / Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of Proclus / Back Matter -- Indexes. Dragos Calma -- Dominique Poirel -- Irene Caiazzo -- Fiorella Retucci -- Laure Miolo -- Olga Weijers -- Katja Krause and Henryk Anzulewicz -- Maria Evelina Malgieri -- Jean-Michel Counet -- Dragos Calma -- Iulia Székely -- Irene Zavattero -- Guy Guldentops -- Ruedi Imbach -- Evan King -- Zénon Kaluza -- Barbara Bartocci --

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads , is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.


Contributions in English and French.

9789004395114

10.1163/9789004395114 DOI

2019001242


Proclus, approximately 410-485. Elements of theology --Criticism and interpretation.


Liber de causis.


Neoplatonism.

B701.E43

186/.4