Champion / Masolini / Nothaft Peter de Rivo on Chronology and the Calendar

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6166-347-4
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Critical edition of previously unpublished works by a key philosopher of the fifteenth-century Low Countries
Peter de Rivo (c.1420–1499), a renowned philosopher active at the University of Leuven, is today mostly remembered for his controversial role in the quarrel over future contingents (1465–1475). Much less known are his contributions to historical chronology, in particular his attempts to determine the dates of Christ’s birth and death. In 1471, Peter made an original contribution to this long-standing discussion with his Dyalogus de temporibus Christi, which reconciles conflicting views by rewriting the history of the Jewish and Christian calendars. Later in his career, Peter tackled the issue of calendar reform in his Reformacio kalendarii Romani (1488) and engaged in a heated debate with Paul of Middelburg on the chronology of Christ. This book edits the Dyalogus and Reformacio and sets out their context and transmission in an extensive historical introduction.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Champion, Matthew S.

Masolini, Serena

Nothaft, C. Philipp E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1. Peter de Rivo: A University Professor in Fifteenth-Century Leuven
Chapter 2. The Chronology of Christ’s Life in Peter de Rivo’s Dyalogus de temporibus Christi 1. Background and Sources 2. Peter’s Argument
Chapter 3. Peter de Rivo’s Debate with Paul of Middelburg 1. An Offensive Apology 2. Peter’s Return to Chronology 3. The Clash of 1492 4. The Aftermath 5. Appendix: Texts Relating to Paul of Middelburg in MS Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 300
Chapter 4. Peter de Rivo on Reforming the Ecclesiastical Calendar
Chapter 5. Peter de Rivo’s Dyalogus de temporibus Christi and Reformacio: Manuscripts, Communities, and Reading 1. Notes on the Codices 2. St Martin’s, Leuven 3. The Priory of Bethleem, Herent 4. Reading in the Reformed Religious Houses of the Southern Low Countries 5. Circulation of Texts 6. A Seventeenth-Century Coda
The CodicesPrinciples of Edition
Dyalogus de temporibus Christi Prologus Tractatus 1:

Über Autor(innen)

Masolini, Serena
Serena Masolini is postdoctoral researcher at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, KU Leuven.

Champion, Matthew S.
Matthew S. Champion is senior research fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University.

Nothaft, C. Philipp E.
C. Philipp E. Nothaft is senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.