12193 - History of Medieval Philosophy (2)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)

Learning outcomes

The course deepens the knowledge of medieval thought considered in some of its important moments. The course also aims to train the reading and critical analysis of the texts. The study of the topics discussed allows students to acquire the ability to assess the importance and the historical function of medieval thought; to appreciate the theoretical value of some of its specific elements, to know the main historiographical interpretations of topics and texts under consideration.

Course contents

General profile of the history of medieval philosophy

Different forms and conditions in medieval philosophy

Manuscripts of medieval philosophy

Intersections between philosophical knowledge and other forms of knowledge

West and East in medieval philosophy

Bonaventura, The sermons and their influence on the iconographic theme of the Pietà of Christ

Readings/Bibliography

1. Authors and history of medieval philosophy

A single text chosen from the following

(A) Pasquale Porro e Costantino Esposito, Filosofia, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2008 [choose only five chapters]; (B) Claudio Leonardi Medioevo latino. La cultura dell'Europa cristiana cur. Francesco Santi, praef. I Deug-Su - Oronzo Limone - Enrico Menestò, Firenze, SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo 2004 [only pp. 191-396 or pp. 399-567] (in ALMARE: dbase>Mirabile, Home>Miscelanee> Medioevo latino)) (C) Francesco Santi L'età metaforica. Figure di Dio e letteratura latina medievale da Gregorio Magno a Dante Spoleto (Perugia), Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo (CISAM) 2011 pp. XVIII-404 tav. 1 (Uomini e mondi medievali. Collana del Centro Italiano di Studi sul Basso Medioevo - Accademia Tudertina 25) [only pp. 3-150].

2.  Studie about the conditions of medieval philosophical culture

A single text chosen from the following

Il libro filosofico. Dall'antichità al XXI secolo - Philosophy and the Books. From Antiquity to the XXI Century. = “Quaestio” 11 (2011 ma 2012): only articles by R. Chiaradonna, F. Ronconi, F. Santi, P. Porro, C. Esposito/M. Lamanna.

Filosofi e teologi. La ricerca e l'insegnamento nell'università medievale cur. Luca Bianchi - Eugenio Randi, Bergamo, Lubrina 1989 pp. 279 (Quodlibet. Ricerche e strumenti di filosofia medievale 4) (Nella sezione Testi le sezioni nn. 1, 2 e 5 (pp. 37-54, e pp. 69-81); nella sezione Studi i saggi di Weijers (pp. 81-108), di Pinborg-Kenny (pp. 109-44) di Glorieux (pp. 153-168) e di due Bataillon (pp. 193-228).

R. Imbach, Dante, la filosofia e i laici cur. Pasquale Porro, trad. Marisa Ferrarini, Genova-Milano, Marietti 2003 pp. XX-224 (Collana di saggistica 88) (or Id., Laien in der Philosophie des Mittelalters. Hinweise und Anregungen zu einem vernachlässigten Amsterdam, B.R. Grüner 1989 pp. 171 (Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie 14) (entire volume)

U. Eco, Metafora e conoscenza nel Medioevo oppure La falsificazione nel Medioevo in Scritti su pensiero medievale, Bompiani, Milano 2012 (Il pensiero occidentale) pp. 589-664 or pp. 731-751.

 

3. Text

Bonaventura di Bagnoregio Sermones nn. 39-43 e 51-52 in Sermones de diversis (ed. J. G. Bougerol 1993), Roma, Città Nuova 2017, vol. I: n. 19, pp. 316-27; vol. II, n. 39, pp. 116-145; n. 43, pp. 172-189; e nn. 51-52, pp. 294-317, (Opere di san Bonaventura XII/2)

Non attending students

Another philosophical text of the medieval Latin tradition chosen among the works of the following authors (in critical edition and translation): Boezio, Cassiodoro, Gregorio Magno, Alcuino, Gerberto di Aurillac, Anselmo di Canterbury, Pietro Abelardo, Eloisa del Paracleto, Bernardo di Clairvaux, Ildegarde di Bingen, Riccardo di San Vittore, Alano di Lilla, Tommaso d’Aquino, Bonaventura di Bagnoregio, Angela da Foligno, Raimondo Lullo, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Duns Scoto, Eckhart, Guglielmo d’Ockham, Niccolò Cusano. (The teacher is available to advise on accessible and reliable editions. Other authors may be proposed to the teacher).

Teaching methods


Classes are organized in form of lectures.

Assessment methods

The exams consist in an interview (30').

Students should be able to demonstrate their skills in reading and interpreting the texts, in placing authors and texts in their historical context, and in assessing their contribution within the history of European culture.

 

Teaching tools

Studies will be made available on the platform materiali didattici online.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Santi