1st Edition
Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order
1: Zoological Inconsistency and Confusion in the Physiologus latinus - Emmanuelle Kuhry
2: Gerald of Wales and Saint Brigid’s Falcon: The Chaste Beast in Medieval and Early Modern Irish Natural History - Bernd Roling
3: Medieval Universes in Disorder: Primeval Chaos and Its Authoritative Coordinates - Nicola Polloni
4: Animals under an Encyclopedic Lens: Zoological Misinterpretation in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Liber de Natura Rerum - Mattia Cipriani
5: Learning from Bees, Wasps, and Ants: Communal Norms, Social Practices, and Contingencies of Nature in Medieval Insect Allegories - Julia Burkhardt
6: Defining and Picturing Elements and Humours in Medieval Medicine: Text and Images in Bartholomew the Englishman’s De Proprietatibus Rerum - Grégory Clesse
7: Why Do Animals Have Parts? Organs and Organisation in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s De animalibus - Dominic Dold
8 La reproduction imparfaite: les "gusanes" et l’état larvaire des insectes chez Albert le Grand - Isabelle Draelants
9: Elixir as Means of Contrasting with Nature in Albert the Great’s Alchemy - Athanasios Rinotas
10: From Prime Matter to Chaos in Ramon Llull - Carla Compagno
Biography
Mattia Cipriani currently holds an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on Thomas of Cantimpré’s Liber de natura rerum, on medieval encyclopaedism, and on the transmission of naturalistic ideas and texts.
Nicola Polloni has worked at the universities of Pavia, Durham, and Berlin. Since 2020, he is FWO Senior Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. His research expands cross-disciplinarily on medieval hylomorphism and theories of matter.
