Argues that the Divine Comedy dramatizes the risks and rewards of competing narratives, or different ways of reading.
“Dante and the Legibility of the Universe: Facts and Narratives” is the twenty-first in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers...(Read More)
Mediaevalia - Annual
(March 2021)
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide
Winner of the 2012 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, presented by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
An annual journal on all aspects of medieval and early Renaissance culture to 1500.
One of the first multidisciplinary journals in North America, Mediaevalia was founded in 1975 and continues to provide a forum for innovative scholarship across a variety of fields in the Middle Age...(Read More)
This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In this book, Philipp von Wussow argues that the philosophical project of Leo Strauss must be located in the intersection of culture, religion, and the political. Based on archiv...(Read More)
Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.
In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart’s answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let ...(Read More)
The Repose of the Spirits
(October 2019)
A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names Ahmad Sam'ani - Author William C. Chittick - Translated and with an introduction by
Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.
The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam‘ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of th...(Read More)
Power and Progress
(September 2019)
Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History Alexander Green - Author
Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress is the first book in English to focus on a central aspect of his work: Ibn Kaspi’s philosophy of history. Alex...(Read More)
