Nicholas of Autrecourt

Description:

This volume contains the first critical edition and a complete English translation of the well-known correspondence conducted by the fourteenth-century 'sceptic' author Nicholas of Autrecourt (c. 1300-1369), with Bernard of Arezzo and a Master Giles. In the Introduction the extant manuscripts are analysed and the different positions of Nicholas, Bernard and Giles are discussed; the purport of Giles' reply to Nicholas is, contrary to common opinion, identified as a defence of Aristotelianism rather than of Bernard's 'sceptic' views. Two appendices contain the first critical edition of the records of the Avignon trial against Nicholas found in the Vatican Archives, and the 'Condemned Articles' with an English translation. The volume is rounded off with extensive indexes, which facilitate the use of the book as a source for the history of fourteenth-century thought.

subjects: Bibliothèque nationale de France,  Correspondence,  Early works to 1800,  Medieval Philosophy,  Philosophers,  Theology,  Theory of Knowledge,  Biography: general,  Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,  Other prose: classical, early & medieval,  Topics in philosophy,  Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600,  Medieval,  History & Surveys - Medieval,  ca. 1300-ca. 1350,  Nicolaus,,  Intellectual History,  Philosophy,  Literary Criticism,  de Autricuria,,  Knowledge, Theory of,  Interior Design - General,  Bernard,  Giles,  Nicolaus,  Giles,,  France,  Manuscripts,  Philosophers, correspondence

People: Bernard of Arezzo (14th cent),  Giles Master (14th cent),  Nicolaus de Autricuria (ca. 1300-ca. 1350)

Places: Early works to 1800,  France