scholarly journals Il nome della rosa di Umberto Eco e la storia della filosofia medievale / Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and the History of Medieval Philosophy

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Gregorio PIAIA
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Rose ◽  
The Middle Ages

What contribution has Umberto Eco’s historical fiction made to knowledge of the history of medieval philosophy? His first and most famous novel, The Name of the Rose (1980), had the merit of drawing the attention of the common reader to mediaeval thought, which is usually neglected and still not widely known. However, this portrayal was characterized by a negative and deforming image of medieval monasticism and its philosophical conceptions. By contrast the scholastic Middle Ages (Roger Bacon, Marsilius of Padua, and especially William of Ockham) were looked upon by Eco with very modern —even “postmodern”— eyes, so that very little was left of the Middle Ages themselves.

scholarly journals Eropa Berdasarkan Tiga Novel Umberto Eco: Pembelajaran Sejarah Bagi Pembaca Indonesia

ATAVISME ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Dian Swandayani ◽  
Imam Santoso ◽  
Ari Nurhayati ◽  
Nurhadi Nurhadi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
European History ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Rose ◽  
Foucault’S Pendulum ◽  
The Middle Ages

Tiga novel Umberto Eco, The Name of The Rose, Baudolino, dan Foucault’s Pendulum, dengan lingkup latar masing-masing yang dikisahkannya, membantu pembaca Indonesia guna lebih mengenal kondisi Eropa, khususnya kondisi Eropa pada abad pertengahan, suatu rentang waktu dalam sejarah Eropa yang panjang dengan berbagai peristiwa historis lainnya. Meskipun berupa novel, informasi faktual yang disampaikan lewat ketiga novel tersebut dapat memperkaya wawasan pembaca guna mengetahui situasi Eropa pada masa abad pertengahan, meliputi rentangan teritorial yang melampaui kawasan Eropa sekarang, bahkan juga mengisahkan suatu kelompok sosial yang memegang peran penting dalam perjalanan sejarah Eropa. Novel‐novel Eco tampaknya tidak mudah dipahami oleh pembaca Indonesia, apalagi tentang detail yang dipaparkan mengenai sejarah Eropa abad pertengahan, terkait dengan detail situs-­‐situs geografis dan tokoh-tokoh utama yang menjadi titik penting dalam perjalanan sejarah Eropa. Meskipun demikian, hal ini bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai wahana pembelajaran sejarah, khususnya sejarah Eropa abad pertengahan. Abstract: Umberto Eco’s novels, The Name of The Rose, Baudolino, and Foucault’s Pendulum, with each specific setting, can help Indonesian readers to understand Europe, particularly in the Middle Ages, a long period in the European history which has various other historical events. Although the works are imaginary, the factual information in the novels can enrich the readers’ knowledge about the situation of Europe in the period of time, including the territorial extent which exceeded the present European territory. The works, in fact, tell aboutthe social group which played significant roles in the history of Europe. For Indonesian readers, it is not easy to understand the novels, let alone the details related to the history of Europe in the Middle Ages, the geographical sites, and the important people who played significant roles in the European history. However, the novels can be used as a medium for learning history, particularly the Medieval Europe. Key Words: history of Europe; novels; setting; learning; Indonesian readers

scholarly journals Perception Of The Spiritual Symbol In Armenian Medieval Philosophy And Theology

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Haykazun Alvrtsyan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article presents the perceptions and viewpoints of the Armenian medieval literary men concerning the spiritual symbol. Being anchored in the pan-Christian perception of the symbol, it laid the basis of the symbolic-allegorical thinking of the Armenian spiritual culture. In the history of the Armenian medieval literature and art studies, the analysis of symbols, in essence, the discovery of the epiphany in them, which is the fundamental meaning of the culture, have often been neglected. Today there is a necessity to analyse the spiritual culture in a new way to dig out its ideological – world outlook basis conditioned by the artistic and the festival and ritual functions of the different types of art. Such a research also enables us to comprehend the aesthetic, artistic and doctrinal - philosophical merits of the spiritual culture (literature, miniature, architecture, etc.) created throughout the centuries and still unknown to us in a new way, to review the system of criteria and ideological-methodological basis of the evaluation, which bears a great significance for the complete and precise perception and evaluation of the Armenian art and literature of the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Vanaf Ockham na Kusa: Die ensiklopediese aanspraak van ‘n ‘post-skolastiek’ in die Middeleeuse filosofie

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Beukes
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
History Of

From Ockham to Cusa: The encyclopaedic case for ‘post-scholasticism’ in Medieval philosophy. This article argues for the encyclopaedic recognition of ‘post-scholasticism’, indicating the very last and complex period (circa 1349–1464) in late Medieval philosophy, where the via moderna and logica modernorum have clearly departed from the fundamental premises of high scholasticism, the via antiqua and the logica novus, as manifested in the work of William of Ockham (and, eventually, in the political theory of Marsilius of Padua). The article argues that post-scholasticism should be distinguished from late scholasticism (exiting Ockham) and early Renaissance philosophy (entering Nicholas of Cusa). The article indicates that there is a tendency in many introductions to and secondary texts in Medieval philosophy to proceed straight from Ockham to Cusa (the ‘very last Medieval and very first Renaissance philosopher’), understating more than a century of pertinent Medieval scholarship. In the modern encyclopaedia of philosophy, this understatement manifests in either a predating of Renaissance philosophy to close the gap between Ockham and Cusa as far as possible, or in understating this period as philosophically sterile, or in, without argument, simply proceeding straight from Ockham to Cusa. The article covers some of the essential philosophical contributions presented during this fragile philosophical-historical period, indicating that post-scholasticism is indeed a difficult and complex, yet productive period in the history of late Medieval philosophy, which should not be bypassed as a trivial gateway to either Renaissance philosophy or early modernity as such, but valued for its own idiosincracies, intricacies and overall contribution to the history of ideas in philosophy and theology.

Logica modernorum

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
Joke Spruyt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
Critical Note ◽  
Eminent Scholar ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Logica modernorum. A critical note on Habermas’s portrait of medieval philosophy In his monumental history of philosophy, the eminent scholar Jürgen Habermas has managed to provide us with a thorough and very nuanced overview of thousands of years of western thought. The famous philosopher paints an impressive picture of the vicissitudes of the modernisation processes featuring in the history of western philosophy. The Leitmotiv of Habermas’s narrative is the way in which throughout history philosophy dealt with the question concerning the relationship between faith and reason. When it comes to the Middle Ages, it is not surprising that Habermas should focus on the opposition between Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham. However, by confining himself to the concepts of fides and ratio, he completely overlooks thirteenth-century developments in the domain of logic. To take note of these developments is fundamental to understand the process of modernisation in philosophy. The aim of this paper is to fill in the gap, by concentrating on thirteenth-century discussions of necessity and (logical) consequences.

scholarly journals Examining the Slavic Identity in the Middle Ages: Perception of Common Sense of Slavic Community in Polish and Bohemian Medieval Chronicles

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Adam Mesiarkin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Medieval Chronicles ◽  
Historical Root ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Middle Ages

The concept of Slavic solidarity is taken by some political or ideological movements as obviosity. In its later tradition it is based mainly on the language and cultural solidarity emphasised by romantic (and earlier) literature. The very origin of closeness of nowadays (and historical) Slavic nations is there traced to assumed bio-historical root. From the perspective of scientific analysis the examination of the whole term Slav should be done at first place. In medieval Polish and Bohemian chronicles we can observe a growing phenomenon of the identification with wider name Slav and with the common history of Slavs as well. In the Chronicle of Greater Poland, followed by chronicle of the Pulkava of Radenin and with the work of Jan Długosz was defined the model of biblical genealogy of Slavic nations. The solidarity was based mainly on the perception of similar languages and geographical closeness and was transformed in a literary way into blood relations. Reflection of this literary concept in foreing affairs is hardly to declare, but some dynastical representatives used the intelectual concept in a literary propaganda of their goals.

scholarly journals Bibliotheca Tessinensis – seria edycji źródłowych Książnicy Cieszyńskiej i Ośrodka Dokumentacyjnego Kongresu Polaków w Republice Czeskiej

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 359-376
Author(s):  
Janusz Spyra ◽  
Krzysztof Szelong
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Middle Ages

The editorial series Bibliotheca Tessinensis, founded in 2004, is devoted to publishing the unknown or hardy accessible source documents related to the history of Cieszyn Silesia from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as the sources of universal significance, which are stored in Cieszyn Silesia and constitute the abiding component of the cultural heritage of the region. The title of the series harks back to the edition of the bio- and bibliographical materials, planned to be edited by Leopold Jan Szersznik (1747-1814); in the publishers’ intention it grounds the series in the historiographical tradition of the region, giving it also a supranational character and outreach. Accordingly, the Bibliotheca Tessinensis is being issued in two subseries – one of them (Series Polonica) published by Książnica Cieszyńska (the Cieszyn Historical Library), and the other (Series Bohemica) – by Ośrodek Dokumentacyjny Kongresu Polaków w Republice Czeskiej (the Documentation Centre of the Congress of Poles in the Czech Republic). The consecutive volumes of both subseries, issued independently of each other, depending on the organiza tional and financial possibilities of the publishers, are prepared according to the common editorial instruction, have the same layout, and are numbered sequentially within the whole series.

10. Why medieval philosophy?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marenbon
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy And Religion ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

‘Why medieval philosophy?’ considers why anyone should be bothered to learn about medieval philosophy. Very few people—philosophers and non-philosophers alike—do know much about this period of philosophy, but since it is now clear that there was a great deal of excellent philosophy written in the Middle Ages, is there not as much reason to learn about it as to learn about excellent philosophy from any other period? Medieval philosophy shows that the history of philosophy cannot be understood apart from the history of religions, not just because this is true for the time it covers, but because it points to how philosophy and religion were intertwined before then, and for long afterwards.

Mental Language

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Panaccio
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Recent Philosophy ◽  
Mental Language ◽  
History Of

The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and became central in late medieval philosophy. This book examines the background of Ockham's innovation by tracing the history of the mental language theme in ancient and medieval thought. It shows the various contexts in which the idea was developed, the different uses it was put to, and the networks through which it was transmitted. Two ancient traditions are identified as relevant: one philosophical, stemming from Plato and Aristotle, which led to the emergence of a technical notion of ‘internal discourse’ in later Greek philosophy; and the other theological, rooted in the Fathers of the Christian Church and reaching its apogee in Augustine in the fifth century A.D. The study then focuses on the merging of the two traditions in the Middle Ages, as they gave rise to detailed discussions over the structure of human thought and its relations with signs and language. And it finally stresses the originality and significance of Ockham's doctrine of the 'oratio mentalis' (mental discourse) and the strong impression it made upon his immediate successors.

scholarly journals РОЗВИТОК ІДЕЇ НАРОДНОГО СУВЕРЕНІТЕТУ ЗА ДОБИ СЕРЕДНЬОВІЧЧЯ: ДЕРЖАВНИЙ І ЦЕРКОВНИЙ ВИМІРИ

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 116-128
Author(s):  
Владислав Сасін
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
William Of Ockham ◽  
John Of Salisbury ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
The Middle Ages

У статті наводиться історико-політологічний аналіз розвитку категорії «народний суверенітет» в епоху європейського середньовіччя. Проаналізовано причини відродження інтересу політиків та юристів до ідеї народного суверенітету. Вказано на розвиток ідеї народного суверенітету крізь призму державного і церковного життя й основних віх державно-церковних відносин в епоху 128 середньовіччя. Визначено місце феодальних відносин (сюзерен-васал), рецепції римського права та аристотелевої теоретико-методологічної спадщини, звичаєвого права варварських племен у формуванні ідеї народного суверенітету. Також проведено аналіз творчого доробку правників (Джона Солсбері, Генрі Бректона) і філософів (Томи Аквінського, Марсилія Падуанського, Йоанна Паризького, Вільяма Оккама, Гілезія Римського та інших), охарактеризовано місце народовладдя в їхніх творах. Досліджено соціально-політичні феномени життя середньовічних європейських міста, держави й церкви, що спричинили вплив на дефініцію ідеї народного суверенітету в означену епоху. Зроблено загальний висновок про вплив середньовічних політичних підходів щодо народного суверенітету на формування новочасного і ранньомодерного розуміння суверенітету й демократії. Ключові слова: демократія, народний суверенітет, епоха середньовіччя, «теорія двох мечів», консиліаризм, римське право. THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEA OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN THE MIDDLE AGES: STATE AND CHURCH VIEWS The article deals with the political and historical development of popular sovereignty in the Middle Ages. The reasons for a revival of interest were analyzed according to the idea of popular sovereignty. Also were analyzed the characters of feudalism relations between suzerain and vassal, reception of Roman law as well as the works of Aristotle, customary law of German tribes have been used in the understanding of the idea of popular sovereignty. A lot of works of medieval lawyers and philosophers (John of Salisbury, Henry de Bracton, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, John of Paris, Thomas Aquinas) were analyzed in the article. Keywords: Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, Middle Ages, Two-Swords Theory, Conciliarism, Roman law. )

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages
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