Robert Kilwardby

Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.

About the author

José Filipe Silva is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the Director of the ERC research project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550, and the author of Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul: Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century.

Summary

Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.

Additional text

this volume is a thoughtful, illuminating, and indispensable introduction to the work of Robert Kilwardby.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Filipe Silva, José Filipe Silva, Jose Filipe (Professor of Medieval Philosop Silva
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780190674755
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067475-5
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Great Medieval Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christianity / History, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy