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This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography and intellectual contexts, his manuscript remains, and a partial edition of his annotations on Macrobius and Proclus. Through a close analysis of the three prefaces to the Commentary, giving special attention to Berthold’s sources, it traces the Dominican's elaboration of Platonism as a soteriological science. The content of this science is then presented in a systematic reconstruction of Berthold’s cosmology and anthropology. The volume includes an English translation of the three fundamental prefaces of the Commentary.
The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu).
"This is, indeed, a precious insight into the spirit of Berthold’s philosophical thinking. Overall, the monograph’s ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached."
-Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2
The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu).
"This is, indeed, a precious insight into the spirit of Berthold’s philosophical thinking. Overall, the monograph’s ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached."
-Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2
Price: $217.00
Pages: 480
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
Publication Date:
29 July 2021
ISBN: 9789004464902
Format: Hardcover
"Resulta sumamente importante [...] el extenso apéndice del libro, que ofrece la traducción (una versión brillante, que plásticamente sigue tanto la frecuente sequedad del original cuanto sus ocasionales efusiones) al inglés de los tres textos introductorios de la Expositio. Si exceptuamos la versión francesa realizada por Alain de Libera de solo uno de los tres prólogos, no existía hasta el momento traducción de estos textos a lenguas modernas." - Ezequiel Ludueña, in: Patristica et Mediævalia 44.1 (2023)
"...the monograph's ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached." - Giuseppe Thomas Vitale
"...the monograph's ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached." - Giuseppe Thomas Vitale
Evan King, Ph.D. (2017), University of Cambridge, is a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project NeoplAT. Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions (University College Dublin). He has co-edited (with Dragos Calma) a volume of conference proceedings on Berthold of Moosburg to be published by Brill in 2021: The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics. Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on Proclus’ Elements of Theology.