The present work starts from the desire to deepen the figure and thought of two leading exponents of the ‘magical’ or ‘occult’ Renaissance in a Germanic milieu: Johannes Trithemius and Cornelius Agrippa. Both located in a ...

«Relatio transcendens» is a well-known topic among John Duns Scotus’ scholars. Indeed, Scotus was the very first thinker who made a quite extensive use of this notion throughout his works. However, research on this notion ...

The aim of my dissertation is to investigate how universal concepts are formed according to the later medieval Franciscan theologian Peter Auriol (d. 1322). Specifically, in the dissertation I inquiry into the relation ...

The work moves from the intention to verify the presence of an hypostasiology in the ontological conception of Gregory Palamas, ascertained, from one side, that the critical literature on the hesychast theologian has ...

The doctoral thesis focuses on thè investigation of thè development and religious, patrimonial, financial and dialectical dynamics implemented by thè Cistercian abbeys in regnum Siciliae, with particular reference to thè ...

My dissertation is concerned with the three clearly ordered versions («Summi boni», Christiana and «Scholarium») of the same theological work, that is the Theologia of Peter Abelard. If, on the one hand, the entire work ...

The object of this thesis is a critical edition of a Byzantine paraphrase to an Anonymous Commentary of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos (Anon. in Ptol.). The thesis starts with a historic chapter that describes the role of Ptolemy ...

The goal of the thesis is an analysis of the evolution of the cognitive and ritual devices related to dreams and visions in different cultic contexts – from the hero cult in ancient Greece, to those of epiphanic and ...