Adam of Bockenfield and his circle on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscentia

An edited text of the teaching of Adam of Bockenfield, a key figure in the history of the introduction of Aristotle's natural philosophy in England. It offers an edition of three early Latin commentaries on the tract On memory and recollection, all of them produced in the nascent Faculty of Arts at the University of Oxford.

The book consists of three main sections. The introduction to the critical edition enlightens the complex history of the manuscripts and the scientific method followed by the editors. The historical and doctrinal introduction tries to illustrate the difficult reception of Aristotelian theories of memory in a context where other competing theories pre-existed and where natural philosophy as a university discipline was in the process of being built at Oxford. The last section consists of the critical edition of the Latin text of three commentaries on the De memoria et reminiscentia by Aristotle, two anonymous and one by Adam of Bockenfield, as well as in the English translation of the latter.

Julie Brumberg-Chaumont is Directrice de recherche (senior research fellow) at PSL/CNRS/LEM (Paris) and specialises in the history of Latin Aristotelian traditions and the history of logic in late ancient and medieval periods. She has edited Ad Notitiam ignoti, l'Organon dans la translation studiorum ? l'?poque d'Albert le Grand (2013), and a series of papers in the history of logic, grammar, metaphysics and natural philosophy.

Dominique Poirel is archiviste pal?ographe (diplom of Ecole nationale des chartes), Docteur habilit? en histoire du Moyen ?ge, and Directeur de recherches (Senior Researcher) at French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), in the IRHT (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Texts), where he is a specialist of critical edition and history of medieval philosophy and theology, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor and scholastic authors in 13th century.

Foreward
HISTORICAL AND DOCTRINAL INTRODUCTION
Presentation and general overview
1. The De memoria et reminiscentia and its Early Latin Reception
2. Master Adam of Bockenfield on the De memoria
3. The Commentaries on the De memoria by Adam and his Circle
4. The Lisbon Commentary and Adam of Bockenfield
5. The Sententia de memoria: Genesis, Doctrine, and Influence
6. Exegesis and doctrine
General Conclusions
CRITICAL EDITIONS AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
1. Description of the manuscripts
2. The "In precedenti libro" commentary
3. The "Quibusdam naturalis philosophie" commentary
4. The "Quoniam ut complete" commentary
Index
Bibliography