Directory of Medieval Resources

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The medieval period in philosophy dates from the end of the Roman empire (5th century CE) to the European Renaissance (14th century CE), and is largely defined by Neoplatonic, Aristotelian, and Scholastic philosophies.

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• Divine Illumination

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/illumination/
  The doctrine that holds that human beings require a special divine assistance in their ordinary cognitive activities. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Robert Pasnau.

• Medieval Logic and Philosophy

  http://pvspade.com/Logic/
  Resource maintained by Paul Vincent Spade at Indiana University.

• Medieval Theories of Analogy

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analogy-medieval/
  Survey of medieval accounts of analogical terms, which were thought to be particularly useful in metaphysics and theology, but were also discussed in commentaries on Aristotle's logic and in logic textbooks. From the Stanford Encyclopaedia, by E. Jennifer Ashworth.

• Medieval Theories of Conscience

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience-medieval/
  From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Doug Langston.

• Medieval Theories of Modality

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-medieval/
  From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Simo Knuuttila.

• Medieval Theories of Practical Reason

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason-med
  From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Anthony Celano.

• Medieval Theories of Properties of Terms

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-terms/
  The theories of proprietates terminorum was the basis of medieval semantic theory; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Stephen Read.

• Medieval Theories of Relations

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relations-medieval/
  Survey of medieval views concerning the nature and ontological status of relations; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Jeffrey Brower.

• Scholasticism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13548a.htm
  Introductory essay from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Sophismata

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sophismata/
  Article on this common form of medieval philosophical writing, by John Longeway. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy

  http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/staamp0.htm
  Resource covers period from the rise of Scholasticism and St. Anselm to the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas by D.J. Kennedy.

• The Medieval Problem of Universals

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/universals-medieval/
  From the Stanford Encyclopedia by Gyula Klima.

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