Cram Packet: May
Overarching Themes:
Lecture
Philosophies
Mini-Lecture
Talking Points
Compare(and contrast) three areas of isolation, namely Tokugawa Japan, Ancient Egypt, and Gupta India. Consider the following:
What factors (PERSIA) contributed to each culture's isolation?
How do each offer unique cultures?
To what extent has each culture contributed to the world's wealth of accomplishments?
Does each culture suffer from a "superiority complex"? Is this a necessary stage in the development of a unique culture?
What other cultures follow these examples? How do they compare?
Create a Chart and a set of notes to assist you.
What factors (PERSIA) contributed to each culture's isolation?
How do each offer unique cultures?
To what extent has each culture contributed to the world's wealth of accomplishments?
Does each culture suffer from a "superiority complex"? Is this a necessary stage in the development of a unique culture?
What other cultures follow these examples? How do they compare?
Create a Chart and a set of notes to assist you.
Multiple Choice Samples
Essay Practice
Create a chart comparing and contrasting 2 medieval philosophers
Carolingian Thought
Carolingian Thought
- Otfrid: Preface to a Gospel Harmony (Letter to Liudbert), c. 870, in Latin and English [At Harbornet]
- Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On Hail and Thunder translated by Wendy Lewis
- Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On the Deception of Certain Signs translated by Wendy Lewis
- John Scotus Eriguena
- Alcuin
- Legal Studies
- See the Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History for many more texts on legal history.
- The Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms, trans. William North, 1025.
- Gratian: On Marriage
- Philosophy: The Emergence of the Scholastic Approach
- Richer of Rheims: Journey to Chartres, 10th Century, trans. M. Markowski [[email protected]].
- [Tierney 42, Geary 22] Anselm (1033-1109): Proof of the Existence of God. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Anselm.
- Anselm (1033-1109): Proslogium, full text
- Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool, with Anselm's: Reply
Gaunilo's attack on the argument in the Proslogium, and Anselm's reformulation. - Anselm (1033-1109): Monologium, full text
- Anselm (1033-1109): Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) full text
- Anselm (1033-1109): Introduction to His Writings
- Anselm (1033-1109): Philosophers' Criticisms of Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Being of God
- Adelard of Bath: Natural Questions, c. 1137, on the impact of Muslim science in the West.
- Theophilus: An Essay Upon Diverse Arts, c. 1125.
- [Tierney 43.3] Peter Abelard: Sic et Non (Yes and No), 1120, short extracts.
See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism. - Peter Abelard: Sic et Non, excerpts, [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
- [Tierney 43.4] St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153): Letter to Abelard, copyrighted See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Bernard of Clairvaux and Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th Ed.): Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
- Peter the Venerable vs. St. Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Keeping of Serfs, c. 1120
- Peter Lombard: Sentences
- Alain of Lille (d.1203): The Plaint of Nature, full text.
- Jewish Thinkers
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al Khazari).
The entire first book of the Kuzari, a philosophical treatise written by the Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, Judah Ha-Levi. It is written in the form of a dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various belief systems, culminating with a rabbi. - Maimonides (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or Rambam): The Thirteen Principles of Judaism.
- Maimonides: The 613 Mitzvot.
- Maimonides: The Laws and Basic Principles of the Torah.
- Maimonides: The Laws Concerning Mashiach, Chapters 11 & 12 of Hilchos Melachim from the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam.
- Maimonides: Oath of Maimonides.
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al Khazari).
- Intuitive Theology
- Abelard and Heloise
- Peter Abelard (1079-1142): Prologue to Sic et Non, translated by Wendy Lewis
- [Tierney 43.1] Peter Abelard: History of My Calamities [selections]. The full text is also available in English translation by Henry Adams Bellows and in Latin [At Georgetown]; See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Peter Abelard; and Eric Gans: Chronicles of Love and Resentment - Abelard and Heloise [At UCLA].
- Fulk, Prior of Deuil: Letter to Peter Abelard, (Epistola XIV), trans. William North, 11th century.
A letter to Abelard after his castration. - [Tierney 43.2] Peter Abelard and Heloise: Letters, copyrighted but see next item.
- Heloise: Letter to Abelard, trans. C.K. Scott Moncrief. The text is also available in Latin, available via here 12/7/97, [At Georgetown]
- WEB Photographs of Tomb of Abelard and Heloise, Père-Lachaise (Cemetery : Paris, France); and Jean Vignaud: Abelard and Heloise Surprised by the Abbot Fulbert (1819).
- [Tierney 43.5] Peter the Venerable: Letters to Heloise 1142, copyrighted
- The Discovery of the Individual?
A much discussed theory in recent years, put forward by Colin Morris in The Discovery of the Individual, is that the "modern" idea of the individual emerged in the twelfth century. This has not proved to be acceptable to all historians. Nevertheless, some texts - such as those about Abelard and Heloise - have been taken to represent something new. It is the writings of Guibert of Nogent which are, perhaps, of most interest. For the first time since St. Augustine, we find in his Autobiography the sort of introspection which may indeed seem "modern".- [Geary 24] Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124): Memoirs, copyrighted?, but see next item.
- Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124): Autobiography, full text, trans. C.C. Swinton Bland.
- Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124): On His Childhood, Selections from his Autobiography.
- Educational Institutions
- Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215 Courses in the Arts 1215.
- Rules of the University of Paris, 1215, [At UVA]
- [Tierney 77.1] Gregory IX: Statutes of the University of Paris, 1231.
- Frederick II (r.1214-1250): Lictere Generales, establishing the University of Naples, trans. Mario Spagnuolo, 1224
- Court Rolls of The Manor of Wakefield, 1274-1297
- [Tierney 77.2] University of Paris: Courses in Arts 1255, copyrighted
- University of Paris: Courses in Theology [1271] and Medicine [1270-74].
- [Tierney 77.3] Bishop Stephen of Paris: Thirteen Condemned Errors, 1270, copyrighted - see next item.
- University of Paris: Condemnation of Errors, 1241.
- [Tierney 78.1] Life of Richard of Chichester: - a good student, copyrighted
- [Tierney 78.2] Alvarus Pelagius: The Plaint of the Church - on bad students [c.1275-1349], copyrighted - see next item
- Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris, 13th century.
- Medieval Students' Songs
- Rupert, Count Palatine: Foundation of the University of Heidelberg, 1386
- Plantagenet, Richard: The Statutes Ordained by Richard Duke of Gloucester, for the College of Middleham, July 4, 1478. [At R3]
- Cato: Distichs. [At U. Penn]
Used as textbook in teaching elementary Latin in the middle ages. Not by either of the two famous Roman Catos.
- Theology and Philosophy
- WEB Medieval Theologians [At Santiago]
Gary Macy's extensive online guide to Thirteenth century thinkers. - [Tierney 77.4] Odofredus: Introduction to Course on Corpus Iuris Civilis c. 1250, copyrighted
- Aquinas
- WEB See Stephen Loughlin: St. Thomas Aquinas Page
- See also Walter Farrell: A Companion to the Summa [at OP.Org]; and Encyclopeadia Britannica (9th ed): Aquinas, Thomas [At CCEL]
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Summa Theologiae, full text, [At New Advent].
- [Tierney 79.1] Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Reasons in Proof of the Existence of God, 1270, from the Summa Theologiae, trans D. Burr, or another version
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Summa Contra Gentiles, with some abridgement, trans. Joseph Rickaby 1905, full text, [At Maritain Center]
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Catena Aurea: Patristic Commentary on the Gospels: Matthew and Mark, full text, [At CCEL]
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): On the Nature of Law.
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): On The Principles of Nature, trans Stephen Loughlin. [At Desales]
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia), trans. Robert T. Miller.
- [Geary 34.3a] Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): On the Eternity of the World, trans. Robert T. Miller, [Diff. translation than Geary]
- [Geary 34.3a] Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): On the Eternality of the World [Summa Contra Gentiles II: 31-38,], full text, inc. SCG II: 31-38, now available as Summa Contra Gentiles Part 1: Of God and His Creatures. [At Maritain Center/Notre Dame].
- Bonaventure
- [Geary 34.1] Bonaventure (1217-1274): On the Eternality of the World [in II Sent. D.1, a.1. q2, and other texts] copyrighted? See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Bonaventure.
- [Tierney 79.2] Bonaventure (1217-1274): The Mind's Road to God, copyrighted
- Averroëists
- Ibn Rushd (Averroës) (1126-1198 CE): Religion & Philosophy, c. 1190. The text is On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy, or in Arabic Kitab fasl al-maqal, with its appendix (Damina). Appended is an extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla.available 7/7/98
Ibn Rushd (Averroës) was a major influence on Western thinkers. - [Geary 34.2] Siger of Brabant: On the Eternality of the World, copyrighted?
- Ibn Rushd (Averroës) (1126-1198 CE): Religion & Philosophy, c. 1190. The text is On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy, or in Arabic Kitab fasl al-maqal, with its appendix (Damina). Appended is an extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla.available 7/7/98
- Duns Scotus
- Ockham, Scotus, Buridan [Local Copy]
- Nominalists
- William of Ockham (1299-1350): Dialogus, [At Britac]
Latin text edition and English translation by John Kilcullen and John Scott. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: William of Ockham - JDS, II.3.1.5-6. [Local copy].
- William of Ockham (1299-1350): Dialogus, [At Britac]
- WEB Medieval Theologians [At Santiago]
- The following were off-site links to various late medieval philosophical texts offered at a website in Australia. That website is no longer working so local copies are now linked. [If anyone objects to this, please contact [email protected]]
- William of Ockham (1299-1350): Dialogus, Latin text edition and English translation by John Kilcullen and John Scott.
- JDS, II.3.1.5-6. [Local copy]
- Ockham, Scotus, Buridan [Local Copy]
- Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroës): Islamic political philosophy. [Local copy]
- John of Paris: On Royal and Papal Power [Local copy]
- various texts.
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