Books available for review – November 2019

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please write to Nicola Polloni at resenas.refime@gmail.com.

Islamicate Philosophy and Science

L. W. C. van Lit, The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-world-of-image-in-islamic-philosophy.html

 

Charles H. Manekin and Daniel Davies (eds.), Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/interpreting-maimonides/9BDD53BA0288BBBB18D7E3527C8DA6E9

 

Jean-Baptiste Brenet et Olga Lizzini, La philosophie arabe à l'étude. Sens, limites et défis d'une discipline moderne (Vrin, 2019)

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?title_url=La_philosophie_arabe_a_l_etude__Studying_Arabic_Philosophy_Sens__limites_et_defis_d_une_discipline_moderne_Meaning__Limits_and_Challenges_of_a_Modern_Discipline_9782711628551&search_back=arabe&editor_back=%&page=1

 

Elisa Coda, Le forme degli elementi. Isaac Abravanel e la tradizione aristotelica medievale (PUP, 2018)

https://www.pisauniversitypress.it/scheda-libro/elisa-coda/le-forme-degli-elementi-978-883339-0413-538134.html

 

Luis Xavier López Farjeat, Razones, argumentos y creencias. Reflexiones a partir de la filosofía islámica clásica (EUNSA, 2018)

http://www.eunsa.es/tienda/filosofica/2127-razones-argumentos-y-creencias.html

 

Gerrit R. Bos, A Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages (Brill, 2019)

https://brill.com/view/book/9789004398665/BP000001.xml?lang=en

 

Medieval Philosophy (Latin)

Irene Zavattero (ed.), L'uomo nel pensiero di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio (Aracne, 2019)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825525922&fbclid=IwAR3pSBR1ABOd1cHtvyLSv893e4Yp12oBcbsJFZaX3zDhIaqbXm9jmfUacAo

 

Manuel Lázaro Pulido, Francisco León Florido, Francisco Javier Rubio Hípola (eds.), Pensar la Edad Media Cristiana: San Buenaventura de Bagnoregio (1217-1274) (Sindéresis, 2019)

https://editorialsinderesis.com/producto/pensar-la-edad-media-cristiana-san-buenaventura-de-bagnoregio-1217-1274

 

Richard Rufus, Sententia cum quaestionibus in libros De anima Aristotelis. Edited by Jennifer Ottman, Rega Wood, Neil Lewis, and Christopher J Martin (OUP, 2019)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/richard-rufus-9780197266489?cc=de&lang=en&

 

Ruedi Imbach, Minima mediaevalia. Saggi di filosofia medievale (Aracne, 2019)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825523386

 

Lydia Schumacher, Early Franciscan Theology: Between Authority and Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/early-franciscan-theology/8C088A69AD632670DC7A52A65C0B5B48

 

Arnaldi de Villanova, Opera Medica Omnia vol. XIII. RústicaSpeculum medicine (UB, 2019)

http://www.publicacions.ub.edu/ficha.aspx?cod=10372

 

Concetto Martello, Ornatus Mundi. Le Glosae super Platonem di Guglielmo di Conches, Liber Secundus (Officina di studi medievali, 2018)

https://www.officinastudimedievali.it/shop/machina-philosophorum/172-ornatus-mundi-le-glosae-super-platonem-di-guglielmo-di-conches-9788864851228.html

 

Adelardo de Bath, Cuestiones naturales. Trad. José L. Cantón Alonso. Introducción y notas Pedro Mantas España (EUNSA, 2019).

http://www.eunsa.es/tienda/pensamiento-medieval-y-renacentista/2191-cuestiones-naturales.html

 

P. Chambert-Protat, J. Delmulle, W. Pezé, J. Thompson (eds.), La controverse carolingienne sur la prédestination. Histoire, textes, manuscrits (Brepols, 2019)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503577951-1

 

Jacopo Francesco Falà and Irene Zavattero (eds.), Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought (XIIIth-XIVth Century) (Aracne, 2019)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/collana.html?col=FLS

 

Lucio M Nontol Tor y Rafael Ramis Barceló, Ramon Llull y el lulismo: contemplación y acción (Sindéresis, 2019)

https://editorialsinderesis.com/producto/ramon-llull-y-el-lulismo-contemplacion-y-accion

 

Amy M. Austin and Mark D. Johnston (eds.), A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism (Brill, 2018)

https://brill.com/view/title/21418

 

Anonymus, Extractiones de Talmud per ordinem sequentialem. Eds. U. Cecini, Ó. L. de la Cruz Palma (Brepols, 2019)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503582283-1

 

Antonio Petagine, Il fondamento positivo del mondo Indagini francescane sulla materia all'inizio del XIV secolo (1300-1330 ca) (Aracne, 2019)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825521603

 

Elisabetta Bartoli (ed.), Maestro Bernardo Introductiones prosaici dictaminis (SISMEL, 2019)

http://www.sismel.it/?1oK4bBvkR3v0.html

 

Marco Forlivesi, Mario Longo, Giuseppe Micheli (eds.) La filosofia e la sua storia. Studi in onore di Gregorio Piaia (CLUEP, 2017)

http://www.cleup.it/Filosofia_Sua_Storia.html

 

Francisco José García, El culto a Ramón Llull en la Mallorca del siglo XVIII (Sindéresis, 2018)

http://editorialsinderesis.com/producto/el-culto-a-ramon-llull-en-lamallorca-del-siglo-xviii

           

Marialucrezia Leone and Luisa Valente (eds.), Libertà e determinismo. Riflessioni medievali (Aracne, 2017)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825509434

 

C. López Alcalde, J. Puig Montada, P. Roche Arnas (eds.) The Legitimation of Political Power in Medieval Thought. Acts of the XIX Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale Alcalá, 18-20 September 2013 (Brepols, 2018)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS9782503580180-1

 

María del Carmen Paredes Martín, Enrique Bonete Perales, Filosofía, arte y mística (USAL, 2018)

https://edicionesusal.com/obra/978-84-9012-786-5/

 

F. Magnano (ed.), Boethius. On Topical Differences. A commentary edited by Fiorella Magnano (FIDEM, 2018)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503579313-1

 

Joël Biard and Aurélien Robert (eds.), La philosophie de Blaise de Parme. Physique, psychologie, éthique (SISMEL, 2019)

http://www.sismel.it/?1oK4bBvkR3v0.html

 

Robert Grosseteste, The Two Recensions of On Free Decision. Ed. Neil Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2017)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/robert-grosseteste-9780197266069?q=Grosseteste%20on%20free%20decision&lang=en&cc=gb

 

Lola Badia, Joan Santanach, Albert Soler (eds.), Actes del Congrés de Clausura de l’Any Llull «Ramon Llull, pensador i escriptor» (UB, 2018)

http://www.publicacions.ub.edu/ficha.aspx?cod=08938

 

Alessandra Beccarisi and Alessandro Palazzo (eds.), Per studium et doctrinam. Fonti e testi di filosofia medievale dal XII al XIV secolo. Studi in onore di Loris Sturlese (Aracne, 2018)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/collana.html?col=FLS

 

Luca Bianchi, Onorato Grassi, Cecilia Panti (eds.), Edizioni, traduzioni e tradizioni filosofiche (secoli XII–XVI). Studi per Pietro B. Rossi (Aracne, 2018)

http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/collana.html?col=FLS

 

D. de Courcelles (ed.), Les formes laïques de la philosophie. Raymond Lulle dans l’histoire de la philosophie médiévale (Brepols, 2018)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503580135-1

 

F. Domínguez Reboiras (ed.), Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (CCCM 266) Raimundus Lullus Opera latina XXXVIII (142-153) (Brepols, 2017)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS9782503557038-1

 

Fernando Domínguez Reboiras, Soy de libros trovador (Sindéresis, 2018)

https://editorialsinderesis.com/producto/soy-de-libros-trovador

 

Medieval Science

Philipp E. Nothaft, Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe (OUP, 2018)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scandalous-error-9780198799559?cc=de&lang=en&

 

Antoine Calvet, L'alchimie au Moyen Âge (Vrin, 2018)

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782711628384&search_back=bernard+bourgeois&editor_back=%&page=1

 

Dan Attrell and David Porreca (transl.), Picatrix. A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019).

https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08213-4.html

 

Michela Pereira, Arcana sapienza. Storia dell'alchimia occidentale dalle origini a Jung. Nuova edizione (Carocci, 2019)

http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&task=schedalibro&Itemid=72&isbn=9788843096473

 

Jean-Claude Schmitt, Penser par figure. Du compas divin aux diagrames magiques (Arkhê, 2018).

https://www.arkhe-editions.com/livre/penser-par-figures/

 

C. Ingersoll, A. McCusker, J. Weiss (eds.), Imagery and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Brepols, 2018)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503568607-1

 

Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Beate Kellner and Ulrich Pfisterer (eds.), Macht der Natur - gemachte Natur. Realitäten und Fiktionen des Herrscherkörpers zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (SISMEL, 2019)

http://www.sismel.it/tilist.asp

 

Alessandro Palazzo and Irene Zavattero, Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination (SISMEL, 2017)

http://www.sismel.it/tilist.asp

 

Intellectual History

Britton Elliott, Brooks Restoring Creation. The Natural World in the Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives Cuthbert and Guthlac (Boydell and Brewer, 2019)

https://boydellandbrewer.com/restoring-creation-the-natural-world-in-the-anglo-saxon-saints-lives-of-cuthbert-and-guthlac-hb.html

 

Mark T. Abate (ed.), Convivencia and Medieval Spain. Essays in Honor of Thomas F. Glick (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319964805

 

M.-M. de Cevins, Confraternity, Mendicant Orders, and Salvation in the Middle Ages. The Contribution of the Hungarian Sources (c.1270-c.1530) (Brepols, 2019)

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503578712-1

 

John R. Bartlett (ed.), Burchard of Mount Sion, O.P. Descriptio Terrae Sanctae (Oxford University Press, 2019)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/burchard-of-mount-sion-o-p-9780198789512?cc=de&lang=en&

 

Amaia Arizaleta, Francisco Bautista (eds.), Los modelos anglo-normandos en la cultura letrada en Castilla (siglos XII-XIV) (PUM, 2019)

http://pum.univ-tlse2.fr/~Los-modelos-anglo-normandos-en-la~.html

 

Bruno Laurioux, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Eva Pibir (eds.), Le banquet: manger, boire et parler ensemble (XIIe-XVIIe siècle) (SISMEL, 2018)

http://www.sismel.it/tilist.asp

 

Michael Lapidge (ed.), Bede's Latin Poetry (Clarendon Press, 2019)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bedes-latin-poetry-9780199242771?cc=de&lang=en&

 

René Wetzel and Laurence Wuidar (eds.), Mystique, langage, musique: dire l'indicible au Moyen Âge (Reichert, 2019)

https://reichert-verlag.de/de/fachgebiete/kulturwissenschaft/kulturwissenschaft_kulturwissenschaft_allgemein/9783954903498_mystique_langage_musique_dire_l_indicible_au_moyen_age-detail

 

Nancy Nienhuis and Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Saintly Women. Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence (Routledge, 2018)

https://www.routledge.com/Saintly-Women-Medieval-Saints-Modern-Women-and-Intimate-Partner-Violence/Nienhuis-Kienzle/p/book/9780815395782

 

Giuseppe Zarra (ed.), Il «Thesaurus pauperum» pisano Edizione critica, commento linguistico e glossario (De Gruyter, 2017)

https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/486977

 

Stefano Martinelli Tempesta (ed.), Plutarchi Chaeronensis De tranquillitate et securitate animi. Guillielmo Budaeo interprete (SISMEL, 2019)

http://www.sismel.it/?1oK4bBvkR3v0.html

 

Early Modern Philosophy and Science

Virginia Aspe Armella (ed.), Tomás Moro y Vasco de Quiroga. Utopías en América (EUNSA, 2018)

http://www.eunsa.es/tienda/pensamiento-medieval-y-renacentista/2105-tomas-moro-y-vasco-de-quiroga.html

 

François Duchesneau, Organisme et corps organique de Leibniz à Kant (Vrin, 2018)

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782711628186

 

William R. Newman, Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's “Secret Fire” (Princeton University Press, 2019)

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174877/newton-the-alchemist

 

Nikolaus Egel (ed.), Juan Luis Vives, Gegen die Pseudodialektiker (Meiner, 2018)

https://meiner.de/philosophische-bibliothek/v/vives/gegen-die-pseudo-dialektiker.html

 

Hannah Murphy, A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg (Pittsburgh University Press, 2019)

https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604/

 

Perspectives and Methods

Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-in-practice-9781780933313/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=NL-IC-New%20History%20Textbooks-Oct19-UK

 

Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe (eds.) Whose Middle Ages? Teachable moments for an ill-used past (Fordham University Press, 2019)

https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823285563/whose-middle-ages/

 

Tom McLeish, The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art (Oxford University Press, 2019)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-poetry-and-music-of-science-9780198797999?lang=en&cc=de

 

Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen (eds.), Working with Paper. Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (Pittsburgh University Press, 2019)

https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945598/

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please write to Nicola Polloni at resenas.refime@gmail.com.