Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages ─ A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown

This festschrift honors Stephen F. Brown (Boston College), whose scholarship and personal investment has benefited at least three generations of colleagues and students. Initiated as a tribute for his 75th birthday in 2008, the collection travelled a long road to completion, but exists now has a 1,000-plus page volume containing 35 contributions. Arrangement is in sections on metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology and ethics, philosophy and theology, theological questions, and text and context. The three editors are affiliated as follows: Kent Emery, Jr. (Medieval Institute at the U. of Notre Dame), Russell L. Friedman (Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium), and Andreas Speer (U. of Cologne, Germany). They provide an introductory essay offering a biography of Brown and a summary of his scholarly interests, which include medieval discussion of the scientific nature of theology, and the thought of William of Ockham, among other topics. An Index Codicum and Index Nominen enhance usefulness of the collection. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kent Emery, Jr., Ph.D. 1976 in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Professor in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on monastic, Scholastic and mystical theologies and philosophy of the later Middle Ages, and is Editor of theBulletin de philosophie medievale.Russell L. Friedman, Ph.D. 1997 in History, University of Iowa, is Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven's De Wulf-Mansion-Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. He has published Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge, 2010) and articles and book chapters dealing with later-medieval trinitarian theology and philosophical psychology, as well as genres of later-medieval philosophical and theological literature.Andreas Speer, Ph.D. 1986 in Philosophy, University of Bonn, is Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Thomas-Institut at the University of Cologne. His main publications are in the field of the history of Medieval philosophy an theology, on natural philosophy, epistemology and in Medieval aesthetics. He is directing a couple of great research projects (Averroes latinus, Durandus a S. Porciano, etc.) and is the general editor of the Miscellanea Mediaevalia and the STGM.