A new "Documenti e studi," with emphasis on ethics

84186-550834-thumbnail.jpgOne of the best journals in medieval philosophy is Documenti e studi, published by SISMEL, and described by it as “…an International Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages of the «Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino» and of the «Società per l’Edizione dei Testi Antichi e Medievali». The latest issue of this journal—an annual—is now appearing, and is chock full of useful studies on medieval ethical theory, by highly-regarded specialists in the area:

  • J. Celano, The Understanding of Beatitude, the Perfection of the Soul in the Early Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
  • M. J. Tracey, An Early 13th-Century Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics I, 4-10: The Lectio cum Questionibus of an Arts-Master at Paris in MS Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale VIII G 8, ff.4ra-9vb
  • T. Hoffmann, Voluntariness, Choice, and Will in the Ethics Commentaries of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
  • S. Vecchio, Il discorso sulle passioni nei commenti all’Etica Nicomachea: da Alberto Magno a Tommaso d’Aquino
  • M. W. F. Stone, Equity and Moderation: The Reception and Uses of Aristotle’s Doctrine of in the epieikeia in the Thirteenth-Century Ethics
  • I. Costa, Il problema dell’omonimia del bene in alcuni commenti scolastici all’Etica Nicomachea
  • L. Bianchi, Boèce de Dacie et l’Ethique à Nicomaque
  • S. Gentili, L’Etica volgarizzata da Taddeo Alderotti (m. 1295). Saggio di commento
  • V. Mäkinen, The Influence of the Commentaries on Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Politics on the Discussion on Property Rights
  • P. Falzone, Ignoranza, desiderio, giudizio. L’Etica Nicomachea nella struttura argomentativa di Monarchia III 3
  • G. Fioravanti, Etica e biologia in un anonimo trattato di eugenetica. Edizione del Libellus de ingenio bone nativitatis (ca. 1314)
  • L. Cova, Felicità e beatitudine nella Sententia libri Ethicorum di Guido Vernani da Rimini
  • T. Holopainen, The Will and Akratic Action in William Ockham and John Duns Scotus
  • D. A. Lines, Pagan and Christian Ethics: Girolamo Savonarola and Ludovico Valenza on Moral Philosophy
  • S. Müller, Wiener Ethikkommentare des 15. Jahrhunderts
  • G. Alliney, Per un confronto fra le redazioni del Commento alle Sentenze di Francesco della Marchia: la versione ‘maggiore’ di In Sent., I, d. 1, q. 6
  • L. O. Nielsen - C. Trifogli, Questions on the Beatific Vision by Thomas Wylton and Sibert de Beka

Can’t wait for this one to show up in the Library!

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is an associate professor of Theology at Marquette University, and founded thomistica.net on Squarespace in November of 2004. He studied with James Weisheipl, Leonard Boyle, Walter Principe, and Lawrence Dewan, at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada).