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These volumes present a selection of papers delivered in Paris at the XV International Congress of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, August 22-26, 2022. The appearance of the term radix positionis in medieval debates inspired the contributors to investigate whether there was something that could be considered radical thought in the Middle Ages and, if so, what the roots of this radical thought were in the different philosophical traditions in various geographical, cultural, religious, and linguistic contexts (Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin).

Medieval philosophy often engaged in a quest for origins, but it could also be radical in its methodology or in its attitude when it refused any compromise on its principles or basic concepts, be they innovative or rediscovered. Radicalism could be conceived as extremism in pushing a hypothesis, procedure, or line of inquiry to its limits, leading to extreme positions. Radical thought could mean being intellectually inflexible on principles, obstinate in embracing theses that broke from tradition, progressive but also extremist. The contributions in these volumes thus analyse case-studies of doctrinal conflict, dogmatic struggle, and condemnation by religious or academic institutions, presenting examples of both intellectual courage and philosophical intransigence.

Monica Brinzei is Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de recherche) at CNRS/IRHT and Vice-Director of IRHT. She was the PI of the ERC Starting-Grant THESIS (2012-2018) concerning lectures on the Sentences, and of the ERC Consolidator-Grant Debate (2018-2024) on the principia of Sentences lectures. She is currently the PI of the French consortium of RESTORY Horizon 2020 project (2024-2026). She is co-director of the Brepols series ‘Studia Sententiarum’ and in 2022, she was elected vice president of the SIEPM.

Irene Caiazzo is Senior Research Fellow at CNRS/LEM. Her research is focused on the history of medieval philosophy and science. She is editor-in-chief of the annual journal Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age. Her major publications include Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: Les Glosae Colonienses super Macrobium (Paris, 2002) and Thierry of Chartres: The Commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius (Toronto, 2015).

Christophe Grellard is full professor (Directeur d’études) at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (PSL university) and a member of the Laboratoire d’études des monothéismes (LEM, CNRS). He has published extensively on the topics of medieval epistemology and moral philosophy. He is currently member of the Board of the SIEPM.

Aurélien Robert is Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de recherche) at the CNRS and Director of SPHERE research center (CNRS – Université Paris Cité – Université Paris 1). A specialist in the reception of ancient philosophy and science in the Middle Ages, he recently published　Epicure aux enfers.　Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge　(Paris, 2021),　Le monde mathématique. Marco Trevisano et la philosophie dans la Venise du Trecento　(Paris, 2023), as well as several edited volumes, including (with Ch.　Grellard),　Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology　(Leiden-Boston, 2009), (with J. Biard),　La philosophie de Blaise de Parme. Physique, psychologie, éthique　(Florence, 2019) and (with I. Caiazzo and C. Macris)　Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance　(Leiden-Boston, 2022)

Table des matières :

`VOLUME I

Monica Brinzei, Irene Caiazzo, Christophe Grellard, Aurélien Robert, Introduction

Part I: Plenary Sessions

Alain de Libera, Radicalité, annulation, oubli

Sarah Stroumsa, The Search for Jewish Andalusian Freethinking

Michele Trizio, Three Radical Philosophers in the Greek Middle Ages

Emma Gannagé, How Does Opium Chill? A Radical Response to Avicenna on Natural Properties

Virpi Mäkinen, The Radicalism of Franciscan Poverty and Its Legacy to the Subsistence Rights

Kantik Ghosh, Radical Certitude or Radical Perplexity? Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Conscience in Later Medieval England

SIEPM Lifetime Achievement Reward 2022: Sten Ebbesen, My Radicals

Part II: Ordinary and Special Sessions

1. From Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages

Rosabel Ansari, La métaphysique éléatique et son explication psychologique dans la philosophie d’Al-Farabi

Laura Busetto, Les limites de la dialectique dans le Periphyseon d’Erigène

Luiz Marcos Da Silva Filho, Philosophy Without Subject in Augustine? Dialogue with Alain de Libera

Renato de Filippis, Boethius and the Opuscula Sacra: A Radical Theological Thinking?

Terence J. Kleven, Alfarabi’s Several Introductions to the Organon: Sorting out the Significance of the Manuscript Traditions of Istanbul, Tehran, and Diyarbakır

Luka Kuchukhidze, Determinism, Future Contingents and Divine Foreknowledge in Boethius’s II Commentary on De interpretatione

2. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

David Albertson, Immanence as Exile: Hadewijch as Philosopher of Finitude

Tadeusz Bartoś, Person as a Relation: Thomas Aquinas’ Theory of God

Paola Bernardini, The Notion of Forma Hominis in Albert the Great’s De quindecim problematibus

Irene Caiazzo, L’hérésie amauricienne et sa postérité ou des bienfaits des condamnations

Antoine Calvet, L’alchimie, image ou contre image d’une pensée radicale

Rodrigo Camargo, Les racines de la pensée juridique de Thomas d’Aquin

Elisa Chiti, Nunc cecidit haec anima de amore in nichilum: La radicalità dell’irruzione del nulla in Margherita Porete e Bonaventura

Valérie Cordonier, Qu’est-ce qu’une lecture radicale d’Aristote? La réception du Liber de bona fortuna (13e–16e siècles)

Mateus Domingues Da Silva, Platon et l’ontologisation des intelligibles d’après la Ḥikmat al-išrāq de Suhrawardī

Francesco de Benedittis, Defining the Subject Matter of Theology: The Concept of Radicality in John Pecham’s Principium to the Commentary on the Sentences

Carlos Arthur R. Do Nascimento, L’arbre de la philosophie

Anselmo Tadeu Ferreira, Interpretations of Thomas Aquinas’s Theory on the Soul

Albert D. Friedberg, Maimonides on Scriptural Anthropomorphism: It is what it is

Roberto Gatti, In Search of Last, Radical Averroes. Ibn Rushd’s Noetics Interpreted by His Jewish Commentator, Gersonides

Ann Giletti, How Radical is Radical? Heterodoxy and the Paris Radical Aristotelians

Guy Guldentops, Deradicalizing Christian Ethics: Bonaventure, Richard of Mediavilla, and Duns Scotus on the Imperative ‘Love thy Enemies’

Andrey Ivanov, Vis cogitativa and Ars facing Thomas Aquinas

Pedro Konzen Capra, The Wall of Separation Between the Deliberative and the Scientific Part of the Soul – Thomas Aquinas on Passage 1139a11-15 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Roberto Lambertini, Bacone e il Secretum Secretorum come specchio per i principi: Alcune note

Daniel J. Lasker, Were There any Karaite Radical Thinkers?

Julien le Mauff, La communitas perfecta chez les lecteurs d’Aristote: aux racines de la pensée civique et de l’exclusion

David Lemler, The Radicality of Religious Dogmatism: Medieval Jewish Philosophers and the Principles of Judaism

Isabel Léon-Sanz, La teoría bonaventuriana de la iluminación y el fundamento radical del conocimiento intelectual

Celina A. Lértora Mendoza, Roger Bacon y el giro lingüístico de la exégesis bíblica

Darlan Lorenzetti, For A Genealogy of Temporal Power: The Aristotelian and Augustinian Influence on Thomas Aquinas’ Theory of the State

Fiorella Magnano, The Role of the Communes animae conceptiones in Boethius and Albert the Great

Stephen Metzger, Aristotelian Virtue and Apostolic Poverty in the Polemical Debate: Between Thomas of York, OFM, and Gerard of Abbeville

Ritva Palmén, The Wandering Mind and Curiosity in Twelfth Century Philosophical Theology

Anna Rodolfi, Maître Albert polémiste. Acceptions de la radicalité dans la pensée d’Albert le Grand

Jens Ole Schmitt, Ibn Abī l-Ashʿath’s Treatise on Sleeping and Wakefulness

Napoleão Schoeller de Azevedo Júnior, From Intellect to Passions: An Analysis of How the Apprehension Through the Vis Cogitativa is Influenced by the Intellect

Chiara Carmen Scordari, Radicalizing Prophetical Anthropology and Messianism: Maimonides under the Lens of Joseph Soloveitchik

Sita Steckel, Signs of Radicalization. Conflict Escalation and the Fragmentation of Socio-Epistemic Consensus in the Polemics of William of Saint-Amour

Taki Suto, The Best Life and the Radicality in John of Dinsdale’s Ethics Commentary

Andrew G. Traver, Nicholas of Lisieux’s De perfectione et excellentia status clericorum

Cody C. Warta, Departing from the Philosopher: Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Topos

VOLUME II

3. The Fourteenth Century

Alexandra Baneu, Narcissus Pfister on Eternity of God and of the World and his Radical Manner of Taking Notes

Charles Bolyard, Knowledge, Epistemic Regress, and the Ultima Visio in Ockham’s Quodlibets

Niccolò Bonetti, Salvare Averroè? Il problema della conoscenza divina in John Baconthorpe

Monica Brinzei, Perfectio radicalis in John Hiltalingen of Basel’s Principium I (Paris 1367-1368)

Nathaniel Bulthuis, Truth-Bearing and Objective Being: Walter Burley on the Consequence, ‘Some Proposition is False, Therefore its Contradictory is True’

Richard Cross, The Radical Franciscan Christology of William of Rubio

Ernesto Dezza, OFM, The Impeded Will: The Effects of Hellfire on the Damned According to John Duns Scotus

Robert J. Dobie, Meister Eckhart: A Radical Thinker?

Davide Falessi, Guillaume d’Occam sur la continuité et la toute-puissance divine

Francesco Fiorentino, Social Peace, Private Property, and Free Agreement According to John Duns Scotus

Christophe Grellard, Ut dormientes a somno excitaret. Retour sur la condamnation de Nicolas d’Autrécourt

Vesa Hirvonen, Was Jean Gerson’s Interest in Children Radical?

Vlad Ile, Worcester Cathedral Library ms. F. 73 ff. 3-21 in the Light of a Radical Catalogue Description

Martin Klein, Medieval Lived Experience

Roberto Limonta, Il segno radicale: la semiotica del calligramma in Opicino de Canistris

Mihai Maga, Withstanding a Radical Event: Etienne Gaudet’s Note Against Marsilius of Padua

Andrea Nannini, Metafisica dell’univocità e dell’analogia tra Giovanni Duns Scoto e Giovanni da Ripa

Madalina G. Pantea, Variation on the Same Question in John of Mirecourt’s Sentences (Ms. Salamanca, BU, 1863)

Ana Rieger Schmidt, Christine de Pizan on Wisdom and Kingship

Marcus Paulo Rycembel Boeira, Deontic Logic in the 14th Century: Normative Operators and Conditional Modalities Between William of Ockham and Roger Roseth

Amalia Salvestrini, Radicalité de la recherche. Inspirations rhétoriques autour de la beauté chez Nicolas d’Autrécourt

Marcella Serafini, La dialectique de la volonté et la possibilité du mal. Duns Scot entre Augustine et Abélard

Giacomo Signore, Radical Philology. Rewriting the Transmission History of the Fifteenth-Century Codex Basel, UB, A VIII 9

Emanuele Sorichetti, Radicaliter e formaliter. Essenza e attributi divini nella teologia trinitaria di Giovanni Duns Scoto

4. Early Modern Period

Claus A. Andersen, Radical Scotism: The Error Wiclefi in the Long Scotist Tradition

Jean Christian Egoavil, The Philosophical Projection of Medieval Scholasticism in the American Territories Throughout the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Matteo Esu, Radix Morbi. A Short Note on Anti-Contagion Measures and Resource Allocation in John Mair

Roberto Hofmeister Pich, Philosophy of Nature and the Principles of Natural Being: Characterizing (OLD) New Traditions in Latin American Scholasticism

Isabelle Mandrella, Blumenberg et la pensée radicale (Ursprünglichkeit) de l’Ontologie Médiévale

Rogério Tadeu Mesquita Marques, Liberdades nas Américas a partir do Ius gentium de Francisco de Vitoria

Silvia Negri, Radical Humility? Girolamo Savonarola’s Trattato dell’umiltà

Olaf Pluta, Pura ratione naturali dictante ponendum est: Radical Philosophical Thinking in the Late Middle Ages

Aurélien Robert, Galeotto Marzio da Narni’s Radical Ethics

József Simon, Radical Atheism and Scholastic Rational Theology in Christian Francken’s Disputatio (ca. 1590)

Indexes

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Names

Informations pratiques :

Radical Thinking in the Middle Ages: Acts of the XVth International Congress of the SIEPM, Paris, 22-26 August 2022, éd. Monica Brinzei, Irene Caiazzo, Christophe Grellard, Aurélien Robert, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 ; 2 vol., XXVI–1177 p. (Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale, 29). ISBN : 978-2-503-61354-3. Prix : € 150,00.

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This volume investigates the vivid and emotionally intense commemoration of the Passion of Christ as a key element in late medieval religious culture. Its goal is to shed light on how the Passion was communicated and on its socio-religious function in late medieval Europe. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume analyses the different media involved in this cultural process (sermons, devotional texts, lively performances, statues, images), the multiple forms and languages in which the Passion was presented to the faithful, and how they were expected to respond to it. Key questions concern the strategies used to present the Passion; the interaction between texts, images, and sounds in different media; the dissemination of theological ideas in the public space; the fashioning of an affective response in the audience; and the presence or absence of anti-Jewish commonplaces.

By exploring the interplay among a wide range of sources, this volume highlights the pervasive role of the Passion in late medieval society and in the life of the people of the time.

Pietro Delcorno, Ph.D. (2016) is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. He has published widely on medieval preaching and religious theatre and on late medieval social history, including Lazzaro e il ricco epulone: Metamorfosi di una parabola fra Quattro e Cinquecento (Il Mulino, 2014) and In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) (Brill, 2018).

Holly Johnson, Ph.D. (2001) is Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She has published on a variety of topics associated with sermons preached in late medieval England, and she has edited and translated a number of previously unpublished sermons. Her books include The Grammar of Good Friday: Macaronic Sermons of Late Medieval England (Brepols, 2012) and Robert Rypon, Selected Sermons, Vol 1: Feast Days and Saints’ Days (Peeters, 2019).

Programme :

Communicating the Passion of Christ: An Introduction
PIETRO DELCORNO

Negotiating Gender Roles in Fourteen-Century Bohemian Literature and Performance: Marian and Magdalenian Laments
ELIŠKA KUBARTOVÁ

Picturing the Passion: Devotional Strategies in the Passional of Abbess Kunigunde
KATRIN JANZ-WENIG AND LENKA PANUŠKOVÁ

The Passion Narrative in the Meditationes Vitae Christi: Texts and Images
DÁVID FALVAY

Meditational and Narrative Techniques in a Passion Text of a Hungarian-Language Dominican Manuscript
ÁGNES KORONDI

Hearing the Passion: Soundscapes of Richard Rolle’s Vernacular Passion Meditations
TAMÁS KARÁTH

The Art of Seeing: Passion Imagescapes in the Sermons of Robert Rypon
HOLLY JOHNSON

Preaching the Passion in Fourteenth-Century Bohemia: Milíč of Kroměříž’s Good Friday Sermons
OLGA KALASHNIKOVA

Communicating the Passion and Sainthood: Patterns in Preaching on Saint Stanislaus of Krakow
STANISLAVA KUZMOVÁ

Emotions, Theology, and Society in a Blockbuster: The Good Friday Sermon by Gritsch/Grütsch
PIETRO DELCORNO

Roberto Caracciolo’s Good Friday Preaching: Performance, Religious Drama, and Poetry
GIACOMO MARIANI

Words from the Cross: The Speaking Crucifixes and the Passion of the Franciscan Friars
CARLA BINO

Examining Finnish Anti-Judaic Imagery through Sermons: The Passion Iconography of the Holy Cross Church of Hattula
JUSSI HANSKA

Index

Informations pratiques :

Communicating the Passion. The Socio-Religious Function of an Emotional Narrative (1250-1530), éd. Pietro Delcorno, Holly Johnson, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 ; 1 vol., 400 p. (Early European Research, 21). ISBN : 978-2-503-61062-7. Prix : € 115,00.

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Polémique, la question de l’(in-)existence de l’auteur médiéval a souvent été abordée à travers le prisme du sujet, dont l’auteur serait progressivement devenu l’avatar littéraire, régnant en maître sur le système esthétique, éditorial et juridique moderne. Pour renouveler le débat, le présent ouvrage entend contourner cette confusion téléologique entre auteur et subjectivité afin de mieux comprendre en contexte un chapitre clé de l’histoire de la notion : l’avènement, au Moyen Âge central (1100-1340), des premiers manuscrits organisés autour de figures d’auteurs francophones. Par l’analyse d’un corpus original de vingt-cinq manuscrits consacrés à dix-sept auteurs, on arguera que ces recueils sont moins le fait de consciences « proto-modernes », soucieuses de contrôler la diffusion de leur œuvre, que le fruit d’un effort éditorial collectif et planifié pour bâtir des figures auctoriales vernaculaires, et ce, dans un dialogue décapant, quoiqu’empreint de piété, avec les conceptions antiques de l’auteur.

Table des matières :

Introduction

PREMIÈRE PARTIE : CORPUS ET CONTEXTES

Chapitre premier. La constitution d’un corpus. Définitions, clarifications, frontières Recueils à collections auctoriales vs monographies d’auteur Des « super-textes » auctoriaux : cycles et sommes d’auteurs à succès Les chansonniers de trouvères Manuscrits à collections auctoriales non retenus Des collections auctoriales organiques Continuité des collections, force et systématicité des inscriptions auctoriales 2 Présentation synthétique des collections auctoriales dégagées

Chapitre II. Contexte de l’auteur, contexte du manuscrit 249 Le « manuscrit d’auteur », l’autographie et le manuscrit à collection auctoriale Contrôle auctorial et « scribe éditeur » : les codices et leur contexte

DEUXIÈME PARTIE : TRANSFERTS ET HYBRIDATIONS

Chapitre III. « La vie et l’oeuvre » Les vidas, les razos et la « naissance » de l’auteur biographique Récits de la genèse des vidas et les razos La biobibliographie : popularité et ancienneté d’un modèle Théories et pratiques biobibliographiques de l’auteur

Chapitre IV. Monuments collectifs, mirages attributifs Des monuments bibliographiques dédiés à la lyrique courtoise de langue d’oïl Une langue « sans grammaire » « Mirage des sources » et attributions romanesques

Chapitre V. Grammaire, librarie et vies de saints 439 Plurilinguisme, esprit de conquête et auteurs : le contexte anglo-normand « Nen est griu ne latins » : la gramaire morale du franceis de Philippe de Thaon « S’en serai principal autor » : s’amender grâce aux oeuvres d’autrui chez Angier Biobibliographie (in)exemplaire et hagiographie : la vie et l’oeuvre de Guillaume

Chapitre VI. Adam de la Halle dans le BNF fr. 25566 Un monument à la gloire d’Adam de la Halle ? « Ele est l’estronc de vostre mere » : le Jeu du pèlerin comme anti-biographie Dissonances auctoriales L’éternelle et impossible repentance d’un trouvère arrageois Un hommage crépusculaire à Arras

Chapitre VII. « Le departement des auctores » Une lecture éculée : « La vie et l’oeuvre » de « Rutebeuf » La fabrique de la sainte et du poète dans la Vie de Sainte Élyzabel Le BnF fr. 837, un anti-monument livresque et auctorial « Département » des livres et destruction des auctores

Chapitre VIII. « La mort de l’auctor », « qu’est-ce qu’un auctor ? » Auctor, diversité et nigromance : la collection des oeuvres d’Adenet le Roi La « fonction-auctor » dans le Livre de Philosophie et de Moralité L’étonnante ambiguïté de la persona de Baudouin de Condé La mort de l’auctor : les Proverbes Seneke le philosophe

Chapitre IX. Un colosse aux pieds d’argile : l’autorité monarchique et ses multiples reflets poétiques chez Watriquet de Couvin Watriquet, le ménestrel d’une élite en quête d’auctoritas livresque Un auteur institutionnel 7 Le Miroir des princes : une « poétique du pouvoir » dans la langue du roman Selon ma vraie entencion : le « retour du refoulé » auctorial dans A et C Fauvel au pouvoir, Fauvel au miroir : l’héritage du BnF fr

Conclusion Normes et exceptions dans l’avénemebr des mabuscrits à collections auctororiales individuelles de langue d’oïl Quel avenir pour les études sur l’auteur médiéval ? Acquis et points de fuite de la démonstration

Bibliographie

Annexes

Index des noms

Informations pratiques :

Julien Stout, L’auteur retrouvé. L’avènement des premiers recueils à collections auctoriales de langue française au Moyen Âge central, Genève, Droz, 2025 ; 1 vol., 1032 p. (Publications Romanes et Françaises, 282). ISBN : 978-2-600-06591-7. Prix : CHF 55,00.

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This book analyses the diffusion of anti-Judaic stereotypes and topoi in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century model sermon collections. It concentrates on the sermons on Luke 19.41-48 where Jesus foretells the Destruction of Jerusalem. The preachers took the view that the Destruction of Jerusalem was divine vengeance for the Jews because they killed Jesus. Thus, these sermons were a good venue for those preachers who wanted to preach against the Jews.

Model sermon collections were the closest thing to modern mass media. Consequently, their role in the diffusion of anti-Judaic attitudes was significant. The anti-Judaic writings of the early Church Fathers were only read by few literate church men, whereas model sermons reached the illiterate masses all over Christianity. Therefore, they played a major role in diffusing anti-Judaic attitudes amongst the population at large and thus contributed to the marginalization of the Jews, to various libels, expulsions, violence, and eventually to large-scale pogroms.

Jussi Hanska, University Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland (History Didactics) and adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland (Church History). Former council member and vice-president of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, published two monograph books and numerous articles on medieval preaching

Table des matières :

Introduction. The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Christian Church
Quid novi?
Preaching on the Destruction of Jerusalem — How Common Was It?
How to Read This Book

Chapter 1. The Destruction of Jerusalem and its Earliest Representations
Contemporary Sources on the Jewish War
The Apostolic Period and Patristic Literature
The Post Patristic Sources

Chapter 2. Sermons and Anti-Judaic Literary Topoi
Murderers of Christ
Thirty Silver Pieces
The Jews as Cannibals
Obdurate Jews
What is left unsaid

Chapter 3. One Pericope, Many Approaches
The City of the Soul
The Theology of Tears
Domus mea domus orationis est — Two Houses of God
Erat quotidie docens in templo — An Exhortation to Preach
Choosing the Epistle Instead

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Names and Places

Index rerum

Informations pratiques :

Jussi Hanska, The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100–1350), Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 ; 1 vol., 346 p. (Sermo, 19). ISBN : 978-2-503-60949-2. Prix : € 110,00.

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