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Alexander Neckam. « Suppletio Defectuum », Book I, Alexander Neckam on Plants, Birds and Animals, A supplement of the « Laus Sapientie Divine »
No full textBeyer de Ryke Benoît. Alexander Neckam. « Suppletio Defectuum », Book I, Alexander Neckam on Plants, Birds and Animals, A supplement of the « Laus Sapientie Divine ». In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 82, fasc. 4, 2004. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 1076-1079
Beryl Smalley to R.W. Hunt on the Significance of Alexander Neckam
No full textAn explanation of R.W. Hunt's delay to publish his influential 1936 doctoral thesis and its relationship to the 1984 book 'The Schools and the Cloister'. Includes the text of an unpublished letter from Beryl Smalley (13 July 1960) on the importance of Alexander Neckam
Beryl Smalley to R.W. Hunt on the Significance of Alexander Neckam
No full textAn explanation of R.W. Hunt's delay to publish his influential 1936 doctoral thesis and its relationship to the 1984 book 'The Schools and the Cloister'. Includes the text of an unpublished letter from Beryl Smalley (13 July 1960) on the importance of Alexander Neckam
The tropological universe: Alexander Neckam\u27s encyclopedias and the natures of things at the turn of the thirteenth century
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the encyclopedic works of Alexander Neckam, the De naturis rerum, and the Laus sapientie divine , by placing them in the context of his other writings and of contemporary developments in education and intellectual life around the turn of the thirteenth century. The focus and methods of the dissertation are those of intellectual history; but by setting out to understand the interpretative and cognitive frameworks in which Neckam and his scholarly contemporaries were trained, my work seeks to address broader issues like resistance to paradigmatic change, and the complexity of transforming intellectual habits between a spiritual (tropological, in Neckam\u27s case) and a strictly rational mode. The dissertation has two main goals. The first is to provide an updated apparatus for the study of Alexander Neckam and of medieval encyclopedias in general by resolving questions about the structure of Neckam\u27s encyclopedic works, and by presenting an outline of his techniques as a scholar and encyclopedist. The second goal is to understand the inner working, strengths, and weaknesses of Neckam\u27s primary method, tropology: the interpretation of things with respect of virtues and vices. This latter focus revolves around the paradox presented by Neckam\u27s simultaneous understanding of an encyclopedia as both a compendium of the multitude of created things, and as a barrier protecting the reader from a too-close attachment to that multitude. Neckam\u27s moralizing treatment of creation and of human knowledge about it leads to broader implications with respect to education, orthodoxy and heresy, and coming to terms with change. As I conclude, Neckam\u27s mastery of the tropological method appears to have prevented him from correctly evaluating the importance of twelfth-century natural philosophers, and from satisfactorily responding to the challenges of the Cathar heresy and the impact of new Aristotelian texts. Since Neckam was by no means alone in this position, understanding his situation helps us to better understand one aspect of the dramatic changes that occurred at the turn of the thirteenth century. By extension, it allows us to examine the moral assumptions of our own time, and the inevitable blind spots created by the too-comfortable hermeneutic of moral and spiritual self-righteousness
Beryl Smalley to R.W. Hunt on the Significance of Alexander Neckam
Get PDFThe most widely consulted thesis in the Bodleian Library for most of the twentieth century was that of R.W. Hunt: ‘Alexander Neckam’, completed in 1936 for his D.Phil. at Oxford under F.M. Powicke. He was later its Keeper of Western Manuscripts, from 1945 until 1975. The list of those who have consulted the thesis, pasted in the front of the volume, stretches for many pages. Hunt had made a leap forward in the knowledge of this author’s life and works, but never published more than a few notes on Alexander before his death in 1979. The thesis finally appeared as a book in 1984 as The Schools and the Cloister, lightly revised by Margaret Gibson. Published statements imply that Hunt never made a serious effort to publish it himself. But a rare letter from Beryl Smalley, who destroyed her papers shortly before her death, shows that Hunt had in fact made efforts to publish his work in 1960. The letter also offers her own insight into Alexander’s widely misunderstood biblical commentaries
The Augustinian Canons at Cirencester Abbey
No full textUncovering the writings of Robert of Cricklade, Alexander Neckam, and their collaborators
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