New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Italian History and Culture – N. 13, A. 2008
I luoghi del sacro
edited by Fabrizio Ricciardelli
This volume examines the relationship between cities and sacredness, especially in regards to rituals,
between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The articles consider urban space and its
intrinsic social, religious and political functions, a comparison that brings out questions of collective
representation and social order in the Italian geopolitical context. Italian text.
280p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788856400397, $39.50(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.
Nicolo V e Roma
Alberti, Angelico, Manetti e un grande piano urbano
by Stephano Borsi
This volume brings together four lines of study on the pope Nicolò V Parentucelli’s famous urban
plans for fifteenth-century Rome. The studies take a fresh look at Leon Battista Alberti’s involvement
in the plans, reexamining textual and architectonic sources, taking into account the complex
contributions of other players, and ultimately establishing a clearer understanding of each antagonist’s
field and role. Italian text.
648p, paperback, 9788859605492, $54.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, October 2009,
Biblioteca della Nuova Antologia 31.
Tracing Nicholas of Cusa’s Early Development
The Relationship between De concordantia catholica
and De docta ignorantia
by Jovino de Guzman Miroy
The history of philosophy has painted two differing, if not contradictory,
images of Nicholas of Cusa. He was hitherto considered either a mystical
theologian or a political philosopher. This book is a comparative study of
the two great works that have generated these divergent representations
of the 15th-century German thinker. The study yields an understanding
of the continuity and discontinuity in the thinking of the Cusanus of the
Council of Basel and that of the post-Basel period. This book also provides
details that are necessary to offer a unified as well as a dynamic thought, which is vitally important to the
argument for the continued relevance of medieval thought in contemporary times.
324p, paperback, 9789042920392, $107.00, Peeters Publishers, April 2009, Philosophes Médiévaux 49.
Repertorium of Middle Dutch Sermons
Preserved in Manuscripts from before 1550 (IV–VII)
IV. Aerdenhout - Darmstadt. V. Den Bosch - Leeuwarden.
VI. Leiden - Zwolle. VII. Verantwoording en indices
by D Ermens and W van Dijk
Dutch text.
4 vols, 2443p, paperback, 9789042922037, $435.00(s), Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Miscellanea Neerlandica 29.
medieval studies
Jan van Ruusbroec:
Mystical Union with God
edited by P Mommaers
The medieval Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec (1293–
1381) is often highly praised. It comes as a surprise, then,
that no comprehensive study of Ruusbroec’s mystical
doctrine is available. The guiding principle for this work
is that the mystic himself, and not the commentator,
should be allowed to speak in the first place. As the
core of Ruusbroec’s writings consists of the awareness
of the Other, it is only in a close reading of his work in
its entirety, interspersed with textual analyses, that his
view of becoming and being mystically one with God
becomes clear. However, as it is a mystical figure and
his writings that are central to this study, the first two
chapters are dedicated to finding out, always on the base
of the mystics’ own reports, what essentially characterizes
mystics, what they experience and how they experience
it, why they write and in what manner. Ruusbroec’s
own description of mystical experience is covered in five
chapters.
190p, paperback, 9789042921245, $26.00,
Peeters Publishers, December 2009.
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