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"Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 - after 1752) is the first modern African philosopher to study and teach in a European university and write in the European philosophical tradition. We give an extensive historical and philosophical introduction to Amo's life and work, and provide Latin texts, with facing translations and explanatory notes, of Amo's two philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both published in 1734. The Impassivity is an extended argument that the mind cannot be acted on, that sensation is a being-acted-on by the sensed object, and therefore that sensation does not belong to the mind, and must belong instead to the body The Distinct Idea works out the implications for the mind's actions, and tries to show how the mind understands, wills, and effects things through the body by 'intentions' which direct motions in our body intentionally toward external things. Both dissertations try to show how far each type of human act belongs to the mind, how far to the body, and expose and resolve earlier philosophers' self-contradictions on these questions"--

"Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 - after 1752) is the first modern African philosopher to study and teach in a European university and write in the European philosophical tradition. We give an extensive historical and philosophical introduction to Amo's life and work, and provide Latin texts, with facing translations and explanatory notes, of Amo's two philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both published in 1734. The Impassivity is an extended argument that the mind cannot be acted on, that sensation is a being-acted-on by the sensed object, and therefore that sensation does not belong to the mind, and must belong instead to the body The Distinct Idea works out the implications for the mind's actions, and tries to show how the mind understands, wills, and effects things through the body by 'intentions' which direct motions in our body intentionally toward external things. Both dissertations try to show how far each type of human act belongs to the mind, how far to the body, and expose and resolve earlier philosophers' self-contradictions on these questions"--

This publication provides the original Latin texts with new explanatory annotated translations of two philosophical works by Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752), the first African philosopher in early modern Europe. It also includes an extensive introduction intended to help readers contextualize and engage with his philosophical ideas and their historical and intellectual background and significance.

"The Libri Feudorum (the 'books of fiefs') are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping modern ideas of feudalism has aroused an intense debate among medievalists, leading to deep re-thinking of the 'feudal' vocabulary and categories. This book offers an up-to-date English translation with a working Latin text introduced by a historical and historiographical overview of the Libri, thereby providing a valuable tool to understanding the long-standing importance of this collection over nine centuries of European history"--

This edition of the laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers over a period of five centuries was published in three volumes between 1903 and 1916 by the German historian Felix Lieberman (1851-1925), and is still regarded as authoritative. This unique body of early medieval legal writing, unparalleled in other Germanic languages, provides valuable source material for scholars of Old English and of legal history, and Lieberman's thorough engagement with the manuscripts has never been surpassed. Volume 3 provides introductions to each set of laws presented in Volume 1, and detailed line-by-line explanatory notes that complement the dictionary and glossary of terms found in Volume 2. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922), providing a modern English translation of early Anglo-Saxon laws, is also reissued in this series

This edition of the laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers over a period of five centuries was published in three volumes between 1903 and 1916 by the German historian Felix Lieberman (1851-1925), and is still regarded as authoritative. This unique body of early medieval legal writing, unparalleled in other Germanic languages, provides valuable source material for scholars of Old English and of legal history, and Lieberman's thorough engagement with the manuscripts has never been surpassed. Volume 2 contains a dictionary of the Old English, Latin and French words found in the texts in Volume 1. The dictionary is presented in one alphabetical sequence, and is followed by a German glossary of legal terms listing references in the texts, other medieval works and later scholarship. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922), providing a modern English translation of early Anglo-Saxon laws, is also reissued in this series

This edition of the laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers over a period of five centuries was published in three volumes between 1903 and 1916 by the German historian Felix Lieberman (1851-1925), and is still regarded as authoritative. This unique body of early medieval legal writing, unparalleled in other Germanic languages, provides valuable source material for scholars of Old English and of legal history, and Lieberman's thorough engagement with the manuscripts has never been surpassed. His preface explains that owing to factors such as the extreme variability of Old English orthography, and the existence of both Latin and Old English versions of the same material, a traditional edition using just one base manuscript with a critical apparatus would have been too unwieldy. Volume 1 introduces the manuscripts, and gives several parallel versions of each text in Old English and Latin with a facing translation into modern German. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922) is also reissued in this series

This is the first great commentary in the Western European tradition of expounding Aristotle's On the Soul. Dated about 1235, this work by Richard Rufus of Cornwall is a major contribution to the history of Western philosophy and the study of Aristotle. Indeed, no future account of thirteenth century philosophical psychology will be able to ignore the contribution of Richard Rufus. Following Aristotle, Rufus addresses questions as diverse as `how do we reproduce and grow', `how do we see and hear', `how do we understand ourselves', and `how is our immortal soul united with our body?' Its exposition and its questions date from about 35 years before Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on On the Soul, so its publication will prompt a re-evaluation of Aquinas's theory of the soul. As the copious notes to this edition indicate, not only is this the earliest surviving commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul taught at a Western University, but it was read by most of Rufus's early successors. Part of this commentary was published in 1952 but this present edition benefits from two recently discovered complete manuscripts. In addition to the text itself, this edition features an extensive introduction which presents the reader with the subsequent tradition, both published and unpublished.

Dissertations (M.D.), University of Maryland (1812-1920), School of Medicine, 1833-1834. ; This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic": Arachnitis or Inflammation of the Arachnoid Membrane / by Johnson, Edward 1833; Rheumatism / by Butler, Francis 1834; Bilious Remittent Fever / by Boteler, John T. 1834?; Epilepsy / by Ashton, Charles L. 1834; Apoplexy / by Rowland, William B. 1834; Cholera Infantum / by Robertson, George J. 1834; Apoplexy / by Brown, John H. 1834; Cellular Tissue / by Muse, James A. 1834; The Importance of Legislative Enactments for the Suppression of Empirism / by Tyson, A. H. 1834; Pathology, Cause and Treatment of Dyspepsia / by Stanton, William 1834; Epilepsy / by Ghiselin, William 1834; Are There Such Agents as Miasmata Which Acting on the System Produce Bilious Fever? / by McGill, Thomas J. 1834; The Reciprocal Influence of Mind and Body / by Rose, William R. 1834; Scarlet Fever / by Author Unknown 18uu; Chronic Enteritis / by Garlick, Theodatus 1834; Therapeutics / by John F. Leigh 1834; Chronic Diseases of the Nervous System / by Cabell, John L. 1834; Lepra Tuberculosa / by Carr, Samuel John 1834; Purgatives: Their Properties, Uses and Effects as Medicines and Remedial Means / by Brown, Catesby G. 1834; Menorrhagia / by Hutchins, Nicholas 1834; Cholera Spasmodica / by Wilson, Josiah N. 1834; Hydrocyanic Acid / by Frampton, Lingard H. 1834; Eupatorium Perfoliatum / by Power, James 1834; De Concoctione / by Sams, Carleton C. 1834. Some manuscripts in Latin and French. ; http://www.archive.org/details/universityofmary3334 ; somtheses1833-1834a

The Tractatus de origine et natura, iure et mutationibus monetarum of Nicholas Oresme, written in Latin in 1355-1356 and later translated in French by the author himself, might be seen as one of the most important works to read in perspective the late-medieval thought on the nature of money and the role of the sovereign and the political body of the community. This work, here offered in a newly revised Italian edition, built on some manuscripts preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France , appears from the onset as having a particularly marked political vocation, as it is addressed to the king of France Charles the Fifth, of whom Oresme was an advisor. The Norman magister has often been portrayed as a fervent supporter of a metallist view of the nature of money, as if its value were nothing more than the market value of the gold or silver it was made of, a perspective that might be characterised as one of private-law. However, a thorough reading of Oresme's monetary writings, that takes good stock of their historical contextualisation in the troubled monetary anarchy of the 1350s and of the interpretative links pointing to Aristotle's Politics and Ethics – known, translated and glossed by Oresme –, reveals a more complex analysis, that cannot be confined to the all-out defence of the intrinsic metallic stability of money. Rather, the proposed interpretation will qualify Oresme as a political advisor that perceives and appreciates the nature of money as a social institution, whose value and role is determined by those, the whole body of the political community, that are sovereign over money and resort to it in negotiations. In this political dimension of the government of the monetary institution emerges the structural role that Oresme attributes to the faith that must rest with those tasked with governing money: thus, the accent posed on the importance of preserving its value assumes a procedural dimension that aims at granting that the institution of money continues to fulfil its social metric role. ; Il Tractatus sulla moneta del filosofo e teologo Nicola Oresme, redatto in latino nel 1355-1356 e poi tradotto in francese dallo stesso autore, costituisce uno dei testi cardine della riflessione medievale sullo statuto della moneta e su chi ne sia sovrano. Quest'opera - di cui si propone una nuova e riveduta edizione italiana, impostata a partire da alcuni manoscritti conservati presso la Bibliothèque Nationale de France - testimonia sin dal suo avvio la sua forte valenza politica, avendo come primo interlocutore Carlo V il Saggio, il re di Francia di cui Oresme fu consigliere. Il magister normanno è stato spesso salutato quale fautore di una visione metallista della moneta, una merce tra le altre che vale tanto quanto l'oro o l'argento di cui è fatta, inserita in un'ottica schiettamente privatistica. Tuttavia, una lettura più attenta degli scritti monetari oresmiani, che metta in prospettiva sia il periodo storico in cui il testo fu redatto, caratterizzato da una diffusa anarchia monetaria, sia le relazioni che il Trattato stesso suggerisce rispetto ai passaggi aristotelici conosciuti e poi commentati dallo stesso Oresme, rivela un pensiero più complesso e più profondo. La cifra sintetica della sua riflessione monetaria non è infatti riducibile a una difesa ad oltranza dell'intrinseco metallico, ma si qualifica per lo spessore politico e teorico espresso dal consigliere regale che vede e apprezza della moneta il suo significato istituzionale. Il suo valore è stabilito da chi di quella moneta può dirsi sovrano e, al tempo stesso, fruitore: la comunità politica tutta. La dimensione eminentemente politica dell'istituzione-moneta emerge proprio da una rilettura complessiva del trattato. In esso il ruolo della fiducia nell'amministratore della divisa assume un'importanza strutturale incidendo sul valore della moneta e sulla necessità che esso venga tutelato e garantito attraverso precise garanzie procedurali sicché la moneta possa mantenere il suo fondamentale ruolo sociale: quello di misura.

"With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian convictions became increasingly pressing. Especially classical poetry, the staple diet of pagan education, was considered to be morally corrupting (due to its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for the salvation of the soul (because of the false gods it advocated). But Christianity recoiled from an unqualified anti-intellectual attitude, while at the same time the experiment of creating an idiosyncratic form of genuinely Christian poetry failed (the sole exception being the poet Commodianus). In The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority, Karla Pollmann argues that, instead, Christian poets made creative use of the classical literary tradition, and - in addition to blending it with Judaeo-Christian biblical exegesis exploited poetry's special ability of enhancing communicative effectiveness and impact through aesthetic means. Pollman explores these strategies through a close analysis of a wide range of Christian, and for comparison partly also pagan, writers mainly from the fourth to sixth centuries. She reveals that early Christianity was not a hermetically sealed uniform body, but displays a rich spectrum of possibilities in dealing with the past and a willingness to engage with and adapt the surrounding culture(s), thereby developing diverse and changing responses to historical challenges. By demonstrating throughout that authority is a key in understanding the long denigrated and misunderstood early Christian poets, this book reaches the ground-breaking conclusion that early Christian poetry is an art form that gains its justification by adding cultural authority to Christianity. Thus, in a wider sense it engages with the recently developed interdisciplinary scholarly interest in aspects of religion as cultural phenomena" --

A note on the text and translation -- The role of correspondences -- The search for accord -- Leibniz and the Jesuits : China and the universal church -- Jansenism -- The metaphysics of substance -- The union of soul and body -- Composition and the unity of corporeal substance -- The problem of transubstantiation -- Leibniz on transubstantiation and the vinculum substantiale -- Leibniz's final metaphysics : idealism or realism? -- The Leibnizdes- Bosses correspondence -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 25 January 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 2 February 1706 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 12 February 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 14 February 1706 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 2 March 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 11 March 1706 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 21 May 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 11 July 1706 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 20 August 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 1 September 1706 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 17 September 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 20 September 1706 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 29 September 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 4 October 1706 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 14 October 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 16 October 1706 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 5 February 1707 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 25 June 1707 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 21 July 1707 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 3 September 1708 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 12 September 1708 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 5 October 1708 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, mid-October 1708 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 14 February 1709 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 16 March 1709 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz 22 April 1709 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 30 April 1709 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 30 July 1709 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 31 July 1709 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 6 September 1709 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 8 September 1709 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 18 January 1710 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 25 March 1710 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 2 May 1710 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 14 June 1710 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 2 July 1710 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 18 July 1710 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 4 August 1710 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 11 October 1710 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 7 November 1710 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 6 January 1711 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 8 February 1711 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 25 April 1711 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 8 July 1711 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 18 August 1711 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 7 September 1711 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 28 January 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 15 February 1712 -- Des Dosses to Leibniz, 20 May 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 26 May 1712 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 12 June 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 16 June 1712 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 28 August 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 20 September 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 10 October 1712 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 12 December 1712 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 24 January 1713 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 8 August 1713 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 23 August 1713 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 10 January 1714 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 22 March 1714 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 21 April 1714 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 20 September 1714 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 15 March 1715 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 6 April 1715 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 29 April 1715 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 30 June 1715 -- Des Bosses to Leibniz, 20 July 1715 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 19 August 1715 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 13 January 1716 -- Leibniz to Des Bosses, 29 May 1716.