Evangelische Verlagsanstalt has started a series of travel guides focusing on the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking countries. Volumes on Wittenberg and Erfurt has just recently been added to the series, which is entitled “Orte der Reformation”.
Recent additions on pages
Several new items were added on psychology, ethics and polics -pages. See comments for details.
Goulart, Morum philosophia historica ; ex probatis scriptoribus collecta
Agostino Nifo De intellectu | BRILL
Commentaries on Sentences
I have set up a new wiki-based site on the commentaries of Peter Lombard’s Sentences. The site focuses on the texts, which are available in any electronic form on the internet, including digitized images of early printings and manuscripts, as well as modern editions in digital form. Note also the new website for Adam Wodeham Critical Edition Project.
“Medieval and Renaissance psychology” has moved
The page “Medieval and Renaissance Psychological Sources on the Internet” has moved under this blog (see the link in the sidebar). The page also includes several new titles. From now on, additions will be noted in the comments on the page, which can be subscribed as a rss-feed.
On Luther’s teachers in Erfurt
See this blog post for more information on my lecture on the Aristotelian psychology in late medieval Erfurt.
Jussi Varkemaa on Summenhart
Jussi Varkemaa, a theologian from Helsinki, has finished his doctoral thesis on late fourteenth century theologian Conrad Summenhart. The topic is Summenhart’s theory of individual rights and its medieval background. Summenhart, who was one of first professors theology in the University of Tübingen. Summenhart has been considered as an important figure in the development of modern theories of rights. Until now Summenhart’s views have been studied only superficially, but Varkemaa discusses them thoroughly and situates them appropriately in the context of late medieval discourse. For more information, see the abstract of the dissertation here (scroll down for an English version).
Updates in “Medieval and Renaissance psychology” -page
I have reorganised the page on medieval and Renaissance psychological sources putting the items in an alphabetical order. A link to Agostino Nifo’s De anima was also added.
Research seminar in Helsinki
From the website of the research group “Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics”:
Spring 2009
Friday, 30 January, 12-15 (Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Imagination from Aquinas to Hobbes
Pekka Kärkkäinen
Juhana LemettiFriday, 27 February, 12-15 (Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Madness and Morality
Vesa Hirvonen
Timo KaitaroFriday, 20 March, 12-15 (Lecture room 6, Aleksanterinkatu 7, 6th floor)
Christopher Shields (Oxford), Aquinas’s moral psychologyThursday, 16 – Friday, 17 April
Sources and resources of political life in early-modern Europe
Quentin Skinner (keynote speaker), Ronald Asch, Martin van Gelderen, Mark Goldie, Catherine Larrère, John Robertson, Richard Serjeantson, Sari Kivistö, Virpi Mäkinen, Sami-Juhani Savonius-Wroth, Mikko Tolonen.Friday,15 May, 12-15 (Auditorium XI, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Tobias Hoffmann (CUA), Free decision in Aquinas
Taina HolopainenThe seminar is open.