Welcome to the Scriptorium of Mediaevaliter.com
Since we will be offering an insight on our passed and present works and projects (PhD thesis, Book projects etc.) here, we thought it only adequate to
name this part of our site after the medieval writing cabinet.Human Sciences have - mainly due to their basic character for our culture - a great influence on our view of the word and the way of life of a scientist in this field. This is even more true for Medieval Philosophy, as it is not possible to categorise this part of the Human Sciences into the single current academic disciplines. If one wants to understand the Philsophy of the Middle Ages, one has to be open to the social conditions, the political settings and the deeply polyphonic way in which thinking and thought evolved in this time. Philosophy in the Middle Ages is realised between Theology, Physics, Theories on the Soul; throught aristotelian, arabic, andalusian, muslim, latin, greek and jewish texts. It's protagonists are monks, jurists or doctors. And it's main underlying idea is: no question is per se worthless to considered.
Thus it comes with the field that the method of this topic has an influence on those that treat and research it. Unfortunately however, there is a huge wall between the 'normal' world on one side and the one of Philosophy on the other. A wall that hinders basic communication. Behind this wall is even a bigger one that surrounds the so called 'Historian of Philosophy' from his/her collegues, who are said to be the 'real' philosophers. And this wall keeps growing with the prejudices that the 'normal', everyday world forms about the Middle Ages. Instead - as it should be our task - of just prove false these prejudices, these pages aim also at the ones people might have of those ethereal beings that treat these highly intellectual topics, namely us. The researchers of the History of Philosophy.
Lastly, there is an extensive link collection for the research of the Middle Ages. This collection has not been abandoned or lost since the closure of the main part of the site, but rather been reviewed and will be back soon to be consulte online once again.
If now, you have found these pages helpful, please consider to leave us a little feedback by sending us an email on joel.lonfat (at) unige.ch or bettina.kreissl (at) unige.ch or by contacting us via our personal blogs, our Facebook accounts or over Plurk and Twitter. Joel Lonfat (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Bettina Maria Kreissl (University of Geneva, Switzerland) wish you a nice stay here at Mediaevaliter.com.
