"Irene Binini’s book is a comprehensive survey of Abelard’s views on possibility and necessity. It is an important contribution to our understanding of Abelard’s logic and metaphysics, especially because of its use of state-of-the- art research on other twelfth-century sources (many still unedited and available only to those with strong paleographic skills and access to restricted collections), which helps us better to see precisely where Abelard’s philosophy is innovative and distinctive. [...] The compendiousness of this book will make it useful to many scholars, not only of twelfth-century European logic and metaphysics, but also those interested more broadly in medieval logic and medieval metaphysics. [...] I anticipate that Binini’s book will be the standard resource for scholars and students for the foreseeable future. Yet, as Binini herself acknowledges, there is much more work to be done on these texts. Thus, while this book will be a valuable resource to scholars for a long time, one of its best features is the way that it will be the impetus and basis for future discoveries."
Andrew W. Arlig (Brooklyn College) in The Thomist, January 2024, p. 157-9

Irene Binini, Ph.D. (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2017), is Researcher at the University of Parma and Marie Curie fellow, currently coordinating a project on medieval theories of modalities in collaboration with the University of Toronto. She has published articles on 12th-century logic.