Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish

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Marcia Colish is one of the most influential scholars of the history of medieval and early modern thought, the author of numerous books and scores of articles in the field, as well as a pioneering President of the Medieval Academy of America. This volume honours her accomplishments with papers by her many colleagues, friends, and former students, who are themselves prominent scholars from across a range of disciplines. The chapters are diverse chronologically and topically, yet they are all stimulated by themes that Prof. Colish has explored during her long and distinguished career. They address the richness of European intellectual history between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, treating the multiple heritages of philosophy, theology, political theory, historiography, classical reception, and many other subjects to which her scholarship extends. The volume demonstrates the power of ideas in the development of European history generally, revealing that the careful study of the works of the ‘mind’ does indeed ‘matter’. Front matter (“Contents”, “Preface and Acknowledgements”, “Abbreviations”), p. i Free Access Introduction: Marcia Colish and Mind Matters, p. 1 E. Ann Matter, Nancy Van Deusen, Cary J. Nederman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1653 Schools and Schools of Thought in the Twelfth Century, p. 13 William J. Courtenay https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1654 Minding Matter: Materia and the World in the Spirituality and Theology of Hugh of St Victor, p. 47 Grover A. Zinn https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1655 Broken Mirrors: Abelard’s Theory of Language in Relation to the Augustinian Tradition of Redeemed Speech, p. 69 Willemien Otten https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1656 Vocative Verb, Substantive Verb: Performative or Fact-Stating?, p. 89 Mary J. Sirridge https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1657 The Authenticity of the Devil in Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, and Heinrich von Kleist, p. 117 M. B. Pranger https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1658 The Lombard, Bandinus, and Vacarius: Christological Nihilianism and the Anglo-Norman Realm, p. 133 Jason Taliadoros https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1659 Fake Fathers: Pseudonymous Sources and Forgeries as the Foundation for Canonical Teaching on Women in the Middle Ages, p. 157 Gary Macy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1660 The Lady Vanishes: Gervase of Tilbury on Heresy and Wonders, p. 171 Edward M. Peters https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1661 ‘Constant Exercise’: A Late Fifteenth-Century Programme of Studies — Rudolph Agricola’s Letters to Alexander Hegius of Deventer and Jacobus Barbirianus of Antwerp, p. 193 Arjo Vanderjagt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1662 The Timaeus latinus and Cusanus, p. 217 Nancy Van Deusen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1663 The Afterlife as a Mirror of Princes: Macrobius in the Quattrocento, p. 233 E. Ann Matter https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1664 Avarice as a Princely Virtue? The Later Medieval Backdrop to Poggio Bracciolini and Machiavelli, p. 255 Cary J. Nederman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1665 Re-envisioning the Saint’s Life in Utraquist Historical Writing, p. 275 Joel Seltzer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DISPUT-EB.3.1666 Back matter (“Contributors”, “Index of Proper Names”), p. 299