Speculum Stultorum

Friday, 23 December 2022

Ne evagemur in verbis floridis

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This term I’ve been running scholastic Latin reading classes at three difficulty levels, and at the highest level I offered to cover not onl...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

You are Ricardus Anglicus and I claim my five pounds

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In 1897, a 26-year-old Prussian named Wilhelm Herkner received his doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität...
Saturday, 30 July 2011

Traduttore traditore: a plea for intellectual history

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Working on a medieval Latin dictionary confronts me with material for which my training in intellectual history is little help – financial ...
Sunday, 17 July 2011

Quis castigabit ipsum castigatorem?

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In his handbook chapter on ‘Mathematics in Fourteenth-Century Theology’ (2009), which introduces historians of mathematics to the surprising...
Sunday, 7 November 2010

[Quisquiliae] Supplementare: a ghost story

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I've just started a job-related blog, Quisquiliae , whose remit will not always be separable from that of this blog.  As and when there ...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010

Peter Auriol and scholarly inertia

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The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982) has only two substantial discussions of Peter Auriol (a page each on future conti...
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Monday, 1 February 2010

Frustra fit per plura (V)

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Here's yet another of Auriol's statements of ontological parsimony : ‘ Constat enim quod omnis natura refugit superfluitatem – quant...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences, vol. 2

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I can't wait to get my hands on the second volume of Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Current Research , whic...
Thursday, 17 September 2009

Fractio Aeris: A Cracking Tale of Two Villains

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In his excellent book Theology at Paris (2000), Chris Schabel reports Michael of Massa (fl. c.1330–37) as having suggested that God could f...
Monday, 27 April 2009

Kaye on Auriol on the Semantics of Prophecy

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Sharon Kaye's article ‘Some Philosophical Reflections on the Coming of the Antichrist’ (2000) makes more depressing reading than its tit...
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