John Marenbon
Biographic Data
| ID | 98878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Marenbon |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Marenbon |
| SIGNATURE | MARENBON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3315-3922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Thomas Aquinas and Philosophy as a Way of Life
For Pierre Hadot, inventor of ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’ (PWL), scholasticism, of which Aquinas is usually seen as the arch-representative, was not only the opposite of PWL but the agent of its destruction. I argue that Hadot’s view of Aquinas results from confusing ‘philosophy’ in the broad sense, which is how it needs to be understood in relation to PWL, with ‘philosophy’ in the narrower sense that it had for Aquinas himself. When Aquinas’s …
Alcuin, the Council of Frankfort and the Beginnings of Medieval Philosophy
Aristotelian Logic, Platonism, and the Context of Early Medieval Philosophy in the West
Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic in the period, examining its influence on authors usually placed within the Platonic tradition (Eriugena, Anselm, Gilbert of Poitiers), and also looking at some of the characteristics of early medieval Platonism. Abel…
Medieval Latin Commentaries and Glosses on Aristotelian Logical Texts, Before c. 1150 AD
Introduction
This special issue grew out of a small conference The Known & the Unknown: Exploring Twelfth-Century Philosophy , which was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, hosted by the Saxo Institute, and held at the University of Copenhagen in April 2018. Its central topic was the many, mostly unexplored, commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius, and Porphyry that constitute the key textual evidence for a fascinating phenomenon that, although it played a pivota…
Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250–1350, by Mikko Posti
The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of conte…
Medieval Christian and Jewish Europe
Juanita Feros Ruys
Medieval Philosophy
Institutions and literary forms
‘Institutions and literary forms’ explains how the history of Latin Christian philosophy is strikingly different from the other three traditions, because so much of the best work took place in, and was shaped by, institutions dedicated to teaching and learning. In Islamic lands, the focus of teaching and learning was on the relationship between teacher and pupil. In all four traditions, medieval philosophizing centred around commentary, but there…
Pagans and Philosophers
Pagans and Philosophers
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia,…
Relativism in the Long Middle Ages
Christians in the Long Middle Ages (ca. 200-ca. 1700 ce) in Western Europe often thought about paganism, especially that of the ancient Greeks and Romans, such as Aristotle and Virgil, who provided the foundations of their intellectual culture, but also contemporary pagans (that is to say, people who were neither Christians, Jews, nor Muslims), such as the Lithuanians, Mongols, and, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the "Indians," both …
Abelard in Four Dimensions
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy
"This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Each topic has been chosen because it is of present philosophical i…
Methods and Methodologies
Methods and Methodologies explores two questions about studying the Aristotelian tradition of logic. The first, addressed by the chapters on methods in the first half of the book, is directly about the medieval logical commentaries, treatises and handbooks. How did medieval authors in the different traditions, Latin and Arabic, go about their work on Aristotelian logic? In particular, how did they themselves conceive the relationship between logi…
Methods and methodologies
Logic at the Turn of the Twelfth Century
Comment sont nées les écoles parisiennes au début du XIIe siècle? Quels ont été les maîtres et les institutions qui ont compté dans ce processus? Quelles sont les caractéristiques particulières de la production savante à cette époque charnière? Quels ont été les enjeux des débats de l’époque et étaient-ils en rupture ou en continuité avec celles qui les précèdent? Un tel questionnement ne pouvait être tenté que dans une perspective pluridisciplin…
The Cambridge Companion to Boethius
Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued theological treatises, all of which were enormously infl…
The Latin Tradition of Logic to 1100
Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy . Simo Knuuttila
Central Works of Philosophy
CENTRAL WORKS OF PHILOSOPHY is a multi-volume set of essays on the core texts of the western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work and clear and authoritative exposition of its …
The Cambridge Companion to Abelard
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. The essays in this volume survey the entire range of Abelard's thought, and examine his overall achievement in …
Life, milieu, and intellectual contexts
Abelard worked against an institutional and intellectual background that was complex and various not just because of his period - before the rise of the universities regularized the structure of academic teaching and learning - but also as a result of his own character and fortune. The aim of this chapter is to examine how Abelard fitted into these contexts and, in particular, to look at how his philosophical ideas relate to those of the thinkers…
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From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre
This study is the first modern account of the development of philosophy during the Carolingian Renaissance. In the late eighth century, Dr Marenbon argues, theologians were led by their enthusiasm for logic to pose themselves truly philosophical questions. The central themes of ninth-century philosophy - essence, the Aristotelian Categories, the problem of Universals - were to preoccupy thinkers throughout the Middle Ages. The earliest period of …
Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150)
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCV, April 1985, Pages 366–367, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCV.366 Published: 01 April 1985
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCVIII, January 1986, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCVIII.213 Published: 01 January 1986
Later Medieval Philosophy (1150–1350)
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON TrinityCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 405, October 1987, Pages 1010-a–1010, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.405.1010-a Published: 01 October 1987
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Gilbert of Poitiers
There is one distinction which Gilbert of Poitiers uses so pervasively in his masterpiece, the commentary on Boethius' Opuscula sacra, that it is difficult even to begin an account of his thought without explaining it. According to Gilbert, everything except God is what it is (quod est) by virtue of something which makes it so (quo est). For instance, a man is what he is (a man) by humanity; a stone is a stone by stone-ness; a white thing is whit…
A note on the Porretani
Gilbert of Poitiers had many followers in the later twelfth century. In most cases, they were influenced by his particular theological doctrines rather than by his techniques of argument or conceptual analyses. One group of texts (the products of Gilbert's ‘little school’, as it has been called) is concerned to support the controversial features of his trinitarian and Christological teaching with Patristic testimony. Another group puts forward id…
Liber in partibus Donati . Smaragdus, B. Löfstedt , L. Holtz , A. Kibre
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVII, October 1990, Pages 1000-a–1000, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVII.1000-a Published: 01 October 1990
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 152-b–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.152-b Published: 01 January 1990
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 689–690, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.689 Published: 01 July 1991
Abelard's Concept of Natural Law
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN MARENBON JOHN MARENBON Trinity CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.707 Published: 01 July 1993
Storia della filosofia medievale
Medieval Thought
Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages
Dialektik und Rhetorik im frühen und hohen Mittelalter
Dialektik und Rhetorik waren im mittelalterlichen Alltagallgegenwärtig. Die klassischen Schuldisziplinen, Grundlagescholastischer Wissenschaft, stehen im Zentrum dieses Sammelbandes. DieAutoren beschäftigen sich jeweils exemplarisch damit, welche sozialen,politischen aber auch moralischen Auswirkungen auf diegesellschaftliche Entwicklung die Omnipräsenz der rhetorischen unddialektischen Methoden hatte.
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one. By way of evidence the author offers analyses of frequently discussed topics in Abelard's philosophy, and examines other areas such as the nature of substances and accidents, cognition, the definition of 'good' and 'evil', virtues and merit, and pract…
Glosses and Commentaries on the Categories and De interpretatione before Abelard
The letters of Abelard and Heloise
The authorship of the letters between Abelard and Heloise has been the most controversial question in Abelardian scholarship for over a century. The opponents of the letters' authenticity divide into two main parties: those who believe that Abelard himself composed the whole correspondence, including the letters ostensibly by Heloise; and those who believe that, although they may use genuine material, the letters as they survive are a forgery, th…
The philosophy of Peter Abelard
This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one. By way of evidence the author offers new analyses of frequently discussed topics in Abelard's philosophy, and examines other areas such as the nature of substances and accidents, cognition, the definition of 'good' and 'evil', virtues and merit, and practi…
An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy. C. F. J. Martin
La théologie d'Abélard . Jean Jolivet
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