This volume sheds new light on the intellectual history of the Renaissance by focusing on the neglected paradigm of scholasticism. Its chapters aim to recast our present understanding of familiar features of Renaissance thought by showing that many of the assumed innovations of the period took place as a result of a dialogue between plural traditions of scholasticism and the emerging methods of humanism. Written by a team of internationally recognized experts, the volume seeks to further enfranchise scholasticism as an integral aspect of Renaissance intellectual history and explain its value to the study of humanism and early modern philosophy.
An interview with author Amos Edelheit about this book can be viewed here on YouTube.
Amos Edelheit, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Maynooth University. He is the author of numerous articles, three monographs, and a critical edition. His most recent book is A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandolaâs Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (Brill, 2022). Â Â
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
âAmos Edelheit
1 Against âRenaissance Philosophyâ
âJohn Marenbon
2 Aptum ad praedicandum: the Reception and Transformation of Scholastic Thinking in Renaissance Florence
âPeter Howard
4 The Scholastic Background of Marsilio Ficino Round Two
âAmos Edelheit
5 Dominic of Flanders OP (â 1479) on the Cognition of Separated Substances
âBrian Garcia
6 The Teaching of Plato through a Scholastic Lens
Jacopo Mazzoniâs In universam Platonis et Aristotelis philosophiam Praeludia, sive de Comparatione Platonis et Aristotelis (1597)
âSimone Fellina
7 Platonism and Renaissance Thomism at the University of Padua
âMatthew T. Gaetano
8 Marcantonio Zimara on Matter
âStefano Caroti
9 Ideo theologice respondeatis: Pietro Pomponazzi and the Boundaries of Theological Discourse in His Paduan Lectures (1503â04)
âMichael Engel
10 The Immaculate Conception and Biblical Hermeneutics in the 17th Century
âTrent Pomplun
Bibliography Index
Scholars and students of Renaissance intellectual history, philosophy, theology, and culture.