Claude Gauvard: Le rapport à la violence révèle les sociétés

Entretien avec la médiéviste Claude Gauvard, spécialiste de la criminalité et de la justice au Moyn Age.

"La violence au Moyen Age est essentiellement fondée sur l’honneur et, en tant que telle, parfaitement acceptée : vous devez tuer celui qui vous accuse à tort - ou même à raison - qui dit publiquement que vous êtes, par exemple, "fils de putain". Car si vous ne rétorquez pas, votre mère le devient aux yeux de tous..." Claude Gauvard.

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Resources on Cambridge Companion

Cambridge Companions are lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.

Online resources:

• Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy (McGrade).pdf
• Paul Guyer - The Cambridge companion to Kant and Modern philosophy 2006.pdf
• Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (Kretzman et al).pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Augustine.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Jesus.pdf
• Michael Martin - The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Atheism 2007.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to St.Paul.pdf
• BROWER, Guilfoy - The Cambridge companion to Abelard.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.pdf
• Cambridge Companion To Ockham.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Rawls.pdf
• The Cambridge Companion to Levinas.pdf
• Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (The) - Michael Maas (ed).pdf

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72 Views of the Tower of Babel

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William Henry Ireland: The Modern Ship of the Fools (1807)

William Henry Ireland: The Modern Ship of the Fools (1807)

Original and free edition of this interesting book, inspired by ancient versions of the same thematic (like Sebastian Brant)

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Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone “A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages”

Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone. “A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages”.  Wiley-Blackwell | 2003-03-03

This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
Provides a comprehensive “who’s who” guide to medieval philosophers.
Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers.
Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source.
Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers.
Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the fifteenth century.

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Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods “Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic, Volume 2″

Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods “Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic, Volume 2″

North Holland | 2008-03-25 | ISBN: 0444516255 | 728 pages | PDF | 4 Mb

Medieval and Renaissance Logic is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

- Provides detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic
- Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer many questions in the field of logic

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John Marenbon - Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150): An Introduction

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John Marenbon “Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150): An Introduction"
Routledge | 1988-07-11 | ISBN: 041500070X | 216 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb

Contents

Preface to the second edition vii
Preface xiii
Note on references xv
Part One The antique heritage 1
1 Platonism in the ancient world 3
Plato 4
From Platonism to Neoplatonism 6
Plotinus, Porphyry and Latin Neoplatonism 8
2 Neoplatonism and the Church Fathers 13
Augustine’s treatment of pagan philosophy 14
The Greek Christian Platonists 17
Iamblichus, Proclus and the pseudo-Dionysius 18
3 The antique logical tradition 20
Aristotle 20
Logic in late antiquity 23
4 Boethius 27
The treatises on the arts 28
The logical works 28
The ‘Opuscula sacra’ 35
The ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ 39
Part Two The beginnings of medieval philosophy 43
5 The earliest medieval philosophers 45
From Cassiodorus to Alcuin 45
The circle of Alcuin 48
6 Philosophy in the age of John Scottus Eriugena 53
Ratramnus of Corbie and Macarius the Irishman 53
John Scottus and the controversy on
predestination 55
John Scottus and the Greeks 58
The Periphyseon 60
7 The aftermath of Eriugena: philosophy at the
end of the ninth and the beginning of the
tenth century 71
The influence of Eriugena 71
The traditions of glosses to school texts 73
Remigius of Auxerre 78
8 Logic and scholarship in the tenth and earlier
eleventh century 80
Tenth-century logic 80
Antique philosophy and the Christian scholar 84
9 Logic and theology in the age of Anselm 90
Dialectic and its place in theology 90
Anselm 94
Anselm’s pupils and influence 104
Logic and grammar at the end of the eleventh
century 105
Part Three 1100–50 111
10 Masters and schools 113
11 The antique philosophical tradition:
scholarship, science and poetry 119
William of Conches 119
Minor cosmological works 124
Bernard Silvestris 125
12 Grammar and logic 128
Grammar 128
Logic 130
Abelard’s philosophy of logic 135
13 Theology 143
The varieties of theology 143
The ‘Opuscula sacra’ 145
Gilbert of Poitiers 148
14 Abelard and the beginnings of medieval ethics 157
Abbreviations 164
Bibliography 165
Primary works 165
Secondary works 174
Additional bibliography and notes 185
Index 192

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Sample Chapters in Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Sample chapters are available for download in PDF format.

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Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman - The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman, “The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy” (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press (2003) | English | ISBN 0521655749 | 484 pages | PDF | 1.87 MB

Influenced originally by Islamic theological speculation, classical philosophers and Christian Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism from the ninth to fifteenth centuries. They reflected on the nature of language about God, the creation of the world, the possibility of human freedom and the relationship between divine and human law. This Companion presents major medieval Jewish thinkers in a comprehensive introduction to a vital period of Jewish intellectual history.

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The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

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A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages

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Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone "A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2003-03-03 | ISBN: 0631216723 | 768 pages | PDF | 3,1 Mb

This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. Provides a comprehensive "who's who" guide to medieval philosophers.

Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers. Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source. Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers. Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the fifteenth century.

The Middle Ages is not only the longest period of philosophical development in the West, but also one of the richest and more complex. Its roots go back to ancient philosophy and we are still living with some of its consequences today. Indeed, a very large part of our philosophical vocabulary, whether in English, Spanish, or any other western European language, was developed in the Middle Ages, and most of the philosophical problems about which we still worry were first formulated in the version in which we know them in this period. The historical importance of the Middle Ages and its influence in the subsequent history of western thought is difficult to overestimate.

In spite of this, however, the study of the philosophy of the Middle Ages was, until relatively recently, rare outside Roman Catholic contexts. Secular universities, and even Christian colleges from denominations other than Roman Catholicism, rarely offered courses in medieval philosophy, and their faculty seldom did research in the field. The medieval period was mentioned in two kinds of courses: in history of philosophy sequences, the Middle Ages was usually appended to the ancient period, as an afterthought, and was generally given little emphasis; in courses in the philosophy of religion, where arguments for the existence of God were examined, mention was usually made of Anselm’s so-called ontological argument and Aquinas’s “five ways.”

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Wayne A.M. Visser and Alastair McIntosh - History of Usury Prohibition

Usury - lending at interest or excessive interest - has, according to known records, been practiced in various parts of the world for at least four thousand years. During this time, there is substantial evidence of intense criticisism by various traditions, institutions and social reformers on moral, ethical, religious and legal grounds. The rationale employed by these wide-ranging critics have included arguments about work ethic, social justice, economic instability, ecological destruction and inter-generational equity. While the contemporary relevance of these largely historical debates are not analysed in detail, the authors contend that their significance is greater than ever before in the context of the modern interest-based global economy.

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