Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Dragos Calma, PhD (2008), Sorbonne University, is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at University College Dublin. He has published monographs, articles and edited volumes on the medieval thought, including two edited volumes on Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages (Brepols 2016).

"One of the landslides in the historiography of ancient and medieval philosophy is the recognition of the import and role of the medieval reception and reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The volume here reviewed, the first of a triad of essay collections on this topic, will no doubt contribute greatly to that recognition. [...] This is a book for specialists, and a scholarly Fundgrube, as shown by the fact that Latin and occasionally Greek quotations are not translated, the high density of information, and the appendices [...]. The book contains a number of invaluable resources [...] I cannot but conclude that this is an important volume [...] and further avenues of research clearly open up in the wake of this volume." – Marije Martijn, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 06 October 2021."It must be clear by now that the collection under review constitutes a significant contribution to the exploration of how Proclus’ Elem. theol. and the Book of Causes were received in the Latin West and in Byzantium. This volume of contributions by an interdisciplinary group of experts covers centuries of Proclean influence and familiarizes the reader with a vast array of complex philological and philosophical issues, ranging from details about manuscripts to the most complicated doctrinal controversies." – Sokratis Athanasios Kiosoglou, in: Aestimatio ns 2.2, 31 July 2022.

• 1 Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and DebatesDragos CalmaPart 1 Liber de causis2 Tradition exégétique: âges, styles et formes d’ une réception par le commentaireDominique Poirel3 La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles)Irene Caiazzo4 Liber de causis in Thomas of YorkFiorella Retucci5 Le Liber de causis et l’ Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises: Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge)Laure Miolo6 Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiensOlga Weijers7 From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the GreatHenryk Anzulewicz and Katja Krause8 Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and the His (?) Questions on the MetaphysicsMaria Evelina Malgieri9 Duns Scot et le Liber de causisJean-Michel Counet10 Sine secundaria: Thomas d’ Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’ occasionalismeDragos Calma11 The Liber de causis in Some Central European QuodlibetsIulia SzékelyPart 2 Proclus12 Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe sièclesIrene Zavattero13 Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de ProclusGuy Guldentops14 Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’ importance du commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Eléments de théologieRuedi Imbach15 Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam ProcliEvan King16 Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles CharlierZénon Kaluza17 Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of ProclusBarbara BartocciIndex