Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

   Virtues and Gifts

   By Andrew Pinsent

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

   Edited by John M. Robertson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1905, this reissued edition of The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon is an edited collection based upon the definitive seven volume edition of 1857, translated and prefaced by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding. Of great historical, philosophical and scientific interest,...

   Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge
3. Sufi Castigator

   Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian Mystical Tradition

   By Lloyd Ridgeon

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran. It studies his work within the context of Sufism in modern Iran and mystical Persian literature and includes translations of Kasravi’s writings. Kasravi provides a fascinating topic for those with...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

   Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

   By Gregg Stern

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to -...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
5. Lull & Bruno

   By Yates

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
6. Renaissance&Reform;Italian Con

   By Yates

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Ideas&Ideals North Euro Renais

   By Yates

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. Reasonable Faith

   By John Haldane

   In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the nature and destiny of the human soul. His arguments weave elements drawn from philosophy of mind,...

   Published February 9th 2010 by Routledge
9. Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

   Edited by Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby

   Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture

   Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Naqshbandiyya

    Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition

    By Itzchak Weismann

    Series: Routledge Sufi Series

    The Naqshbandiyya is one of the most widespread and influential Sufi orders in the Muslim world. Having its origins in the Great Masters tradition of Central Asia almost a millennium ago, it played a significant role in the pre-modern history of the Indian subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire, and...

    Published April 13th 2009 by Routledge