<i>Idiotae</i>, Mathematics, and Artisans: The Untutored Mind and the Discovery of Nature in the Fabrist Circle

Oosterhoff, Richard J.

doi:10.1080/17496977.2014.891180

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“…123v-124r), they enabled the intellect to move upward, in an ascent reminiscent of Platonic dialectic, from the cognition of sensible species to the cognition of their intelligible counterpart. Once well-versed in the basic principles of Aristotelian philosophy, one should continue with the study of mystic authors, such as Nicholas of Cusa and Pseudo-Dionysius, in order to be instructed in contemplation (Copenhaver 1977;de Gandillac 1973;Oosterhoff 2014;Pantin 1988;Rice 1971).…”

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Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques

Geudens¹

2019

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

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Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques

Geudens¹

2019

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

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“…In contrast to theoretical concepts and analytical categories, this type of knowledge cannot be seen as idealizations or abstractions, rather to the contrary. While the latter in a way create a certain distance between knowledge and reality (or between culture or society and nature), the artisans had immediate access to nature through their skills (Oosterhoff 2014). And this is exactly what was at stake in the long run.…”

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Commons and the nature of modernity: towards a cosmopolitical view on craft guilds

Munck

2021

Theor Soc

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This paper argues that historical research on late medieval and early modern craft guilds fails to escape teleological and anachronistic views, including when they are addressed as commons or ‘institutions for collective action’. These present-day conceptual lenses do not only create idealized views on guilds, but also of the contexts in which they operated, especially the state and the market. This is especially the case with neo-institutional views on the commons, which fall back on a transhistorical rational actor, who can choose between three options for the allocation of resources and surpluses, namely the state, the market and the common. The paper shows that guilds were fundamentally entangled with both the state and the market and that their ethic implied a less utilitarian and instrumental attitude towards natural resources. The consequence of this is that the history of the guilds offers different lessons to present-day commoners than those implied by present-day research. With an eye at launching a reflection on that, I argue in favour of a cosmopolitical perspective, which invites to take fundamentally different worldviews seriously. This includes questioning our own conceptual and analytical abstractions like the state, the market and the individual, up to and including the very distinction between nature and society or nature and politics, which are at the very basis of modern science itself.

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“…Astronomy measures the heavens and 'in the same way that a letter is the smallest part in grammar, and a word or locution is likewise the smallest part in logic, so also the inch is the smallest part in the discipline dealing with weight and measurements' 128. At the Collège du CardinalLemoine, Beatus learned disciplines beginning with their principal, smallest parts 129. Such encyclopedism, as several historians have shown, also motivated the grammarians, from Poliziano to Guillaume Budé, whose famous treatiseDe asse et partibus (Paris, 1514) showed the fundamental importance of understanding ancient coins, measurements, and their conversions for calculating the chronologies and texts of antiquity 130.…”

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A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere

Oosterhoff¹

2015

History of Universities

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am grateful for the help of several modern readers of Sacrobosco: to Kate Isard, for stimulating questions; to Owen Gingerich, for sharing his collection; to Roger Gaskell, for sharing his vast knowledge and some images; to Alexander Marr, for responding to an early draft; to Kathleen Crowther and Peter Barker, for the type-script of a paper just published in Isis; and as always to Robert Goulding, for encouragement and close reading. The reviewers' comments were of great help in revising the article, particularly Renée Raphael, who generously gave up anonymity. The following abbreviations are used in this article:

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Idiotae, Mathematics, and Artisans: The Untutored Mind and the Discovery of Nature in the Fabrist Circle

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques

Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques

Commons and the nature of modernity: towards a cosmopolitical view on craft guilds

A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere

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