An anonymous manuscript from the fourteenth or early fifteenth century, recently discovered, apparently transmitted Thierry of Chartres’s philosophical theology to Nicholas of Cusa around 1440. Yet the author of the treatise is not endorsing Thierry’s views, as both Cusanus and modern readers have assumed, but in fact is writing in order to refute them. Curiously the author never mentions Thierry’s best known triad of unitas, aequalitas and conexio. But a careful comparison of the structure of the author’s argument to Thierry’s extant works shows that the author was nevertheless quite familiar with the Breton master’s writings. The reatise’s author offers an incisive critique of Thierry’s theory of “four modes of being” and rejects two of the modes in particular. From this new perspective, the manuscript can be valued as the first known evidence of Thierry of Chartres’s late medieval reception.
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See H. Schipperges, ‘Zur Bedeutung von ‘physica’ und zur Rolle des ‘physicus’ in der abendländischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte’, Sudhoffs Archiv 60/4 (1976), 354-74; Andreas Speer, Die entdeckte Natur. Untersuchungen zu Begründungsversuchen einer “scientia naturalis” im 12. Jahrhundert (Leiden, 1995).
Peter Dronke, ‘Thierry of Chartres’, in A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy, ed. Peter Dronke (Cambridge, 1988), 384 (358-85).
See, for example, M.-D. Chenu, ‘Une définition Pythagoricienne de la vérité au moyen âge’, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 28 (1961): 7-13; Édouard Jeauneau, ‘Mathématique et Trinité chez Thierry de Chartres’, in Metaphysik im Mittelalter. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 2, ed. Paul Wilpert (Berlin, 1963), 289-95; ibid., ‘Note sur l’Ecole de Chartres’, in ibid., Lectio philosophorum. Recherches sur l’Ecole de Chartres (Amsterdam, 1973), 5-36 (9-23); Werner Beierwaltes, ‘Einheit und Gleichheit. Eine Fragestellung im Platonismus von Chartres und ihre Rezeption durch Nicolaus Cusanus’, in Denken des Einen. Studien zur Neuplatonischen Philosophie und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, 1985), 368-84; Klaus Riesenhuber, ‘Arithmetic and the Metaphysics of Unity in Thierry of Chartres: On the Philosophy of Nature and Theology in the Twelfth Century’, in Nature in Medieval Thought—Some Approaches East and West, ed. Chumaru Koyama (Leiden, 2000), 43-73.
See Édouard Jeauneau, ‘Gloses de Guillaume de Conches sur Macrobe. Note sur le manuscrits’, in Lectio philosophorum. Recherches sur l’Ecole de Chartres (Amsterdam, 1973), 267-278; ibid., ‘Macrobe, source du platonisme chartrain’, in Lectio philosophorum, 279-300.
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An anonymous manuscript from the fourteenth or early fifteenth century, recently discovered, apparently transmitted Thierry of Chartres’s philosophical theology to Nicholas of Cusa around 1440. Yet the author of the treatise is not endorsing Thierry’s views, as both Cusanus and modern readers have assumed, but in fact is writing in order to refute them. Curiously the author never mentions Thierry’s best known triad of unitas, aequalitas and conexio. But a careful comparison of the structure of the author’s argument to Thierry’s extant works shows that the author was nevertheless quite familiar with the Breton master’s writings. The reatise’s author offers an incisive critique of Thierry’s theory of “four modes of being” and rejects two of the modes in particular. From this new perspective, the manuscript can be valued as the first known evidence of Thierry of Chartres’s late medieval reception.
All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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Abstract Views | 328 | 47 | 8 |
Full Text Views | 99 | 1 | 0 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 49 | 5 | 0 |