Geoffrey of Aspall, Part 2: Questions on Aristotle's Physics: Vol. 27 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi)

Donati, Sylvia (Editor)/ Trifogli, Cecilia/ Ashworth, E. Jennifer (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0197266002 / ISBN 13: 9780197266007

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geoffrey of Aspall, Part 2: Questions on Aristotle's Physics: Vol. 27 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi)
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197266002
• ISBN 13: 9780197266007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

Geoffrey of Aspall, who died in 1287 and was master of Arts by 1262, was active at Oxford in the years 1255 to1265. He wrote commentaries on several Aristotelian works, and was certainly a major protagonist of the introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford. In particular, he produced a very extensive question-style commentary on Aristotle's Physics, which contains important discussions of the fundamental topics of Aristotle's natural philosophy, like matter, form, natural agency, causes, change, the infinite and the continuum, time, the eternity of the world, self-movers. Aspall's Physics commentary shows the influence of Grosseteste's metaphysics of light and of Roger Bacon's view on the physical role of intentional species, as well as a strong inclination to ontological realism.
Aspall's commentary on Aristotle's Physics is edited here in two volumes, which together form the first critical edition of this work. The Latin text is accompanied by a facing English translation, and the text is extensively cross-referenced and provided with scholarly apparatus. The detailed introduction guides the reader through the intricacies of the textual transmission of Aspall's commentary, and also presents the main topics discussed in this commentary. The appendix to the edition makes available alternative versions of some sections of Aspall's commentary.

About the Authors

Cecilia Trifogli is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. She has published extensively on the medieval tradition of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and psychology. She is the author of a book on the English commentaries on the Physics (Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century, Brill 2000). She also works on the critical editions of medieval philosophical texts. For the Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi series, she edited Wylton’s Question on the Intellectual Soul (together with L. O. Nielsen and G. Trimble, ABMA 19) and Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics (together with S. Donati and J. Ashworth, ABMA 26-27).

E. Jennifer Ashworth was Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the British Academy Medieval Texts Editorial Committee. She was an expert in medieval and Renaissance philosophy and had contributed to a number of volumes in the Auctores Britannic Medii Aevi series. She died in 2024.