Bibliography

John
Marenbon

8 publications between 1981 and 2014 indexed

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2014

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Eriugena, Aristotelian logic and the Creation

Marenbon, John, “Eriugena, Aristotelian logic and the Creation”, in: Willemien Otten, and Michael I. Allen (eds), Eriugena and Creation: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2011, Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 349–368.

abstract:

The first part of my paper examines Eriugena’s knowledge of the tradition of Aristotelian logic. It shows that the logical works available in his time belonged mainly to a Roman tradition of material available in Latin before Boethius; especially important to Eriugena was the Categoriae Decem, a paraphrase of the Categories from the circle of Themistius which was misattributed to Augustine. He also very probably knew Porphyry’s Isagoge (in Boethius’s translation) and was influenced by it in presenting creation in terms of the hierarchy of genera and species. This topic is treated in the second part of the paper. I consider what Eriugena can mean when he understands the Hexaemeron in these dialectical terms and argue that he is referring, not to the creation of individual animals and humans, but to that of their genera and species. But for Eriugena, as a realist, once these universals are created, the essential work of creation is done. This extreme realism is a reason, I argue, for nuancing the penetrating account by Christophe Erismann of Eriugena as an ‘immanent realist’. Unlike other exponents of this Aristotelian tradition, Eriugena allows primary substances and accidents (individual things and their attributes) to be entirely swallowed up by their species and genera.

abstract:

The first part of my paper examines Eriugena’s knowledge of the tradition of Aristotelian logic. It shows that the logical works available in his time belonged mainly to a Roman tradition of material available in Latin before Boethius; especially important to Eriugena was the Categoriae Decem, a paraphrase of the Categories from the circle of Themistius which was misattributed to Augustine. He also very probably knew Porphyry’s Isagoge (in Boethius’s translation) and was influenced by it in presenting creation in terms of the hierarchy of genera and species. This topic is treated in the second part of the paper. I consider what Eriugena can mean when he understands the Hexaemeron in these dialectical terms and argue that he is referring, not to the creation of individual animals and humans, but to that of their genera and species. But for Eriugena, as a realist, once these universals are created, the essential work of creation is done. This extreme realism is a reason, I argue, for nuancing the penetrating account by Christophe Erismann of Eriugena as an ‘immanent realist’. Unlike other exponents of this Aristotelian tradition, Eriugena allows primary substances and accidents (individual things and their attributes) to be entirely swallowed up by their species and genera.

2012

edited work

Paganism in the Middle Ages: threat and fascination

Steel, Carlos, John Marenbon, and Werner Verbeke (eds), Paganism in the Middle Ages: threat and fascination, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012.

2009

edited work

The Cambridge companion to Boethius

Marenbon, John (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Boethius, Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

2000

edited work

Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages: a Festschrift for Peter Dronke

Marenbon, John (ed.), Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages: a Festschrift for Peter Dronke, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 29, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000.

1993

article

Medieval Latin commentaries and glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, before c. 1150 AD

Marenbon, John, “Medieval Latin commentaries and glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, before c. 1150 AD”, in: Charles Burnett (ed.), Glosses and commentaries on Aristotelian logical texts: the Syriac, Arabic and medieval Latin traditions, London: The Warburg Institute, 1993. 77–127.

1981

work

From the circle of Alcuin to the school of Auxerre: logic, theology and philosophy in the early Middle Ages

Marenbon, John, From the circle of Alcuin to the school of Auxerre: logic, theology and philosophy in the early Middle Ages, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Third Series, 15, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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The circle of John Scottus Eriugena

Marenbon, John, “The circle of John Scottus Eriugena”, in: John Marenbon, From the circle of Alcuin to the school of Auxerre: logic, theology and philosophy in the early Middle Ages, 15, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 88–115.

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Problems of the Categories, essence and the Universals in the work of John Scottus and Ratramnus of Corbie

Marenbon, John, “Problems of the Categories, essence and the Universals in the work of John Scottus and Ratramnus of Corbie”, in: John Marenbon, From the circle of Alcuin to the school of Auxerre: logic, theology and philosophy in the early Middle Ages, 15, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 67–87.