HYLOGLOB (Hylomorphism in a Globalising World: Scholastic Debates on the Ontology of Nature Across Europe, China, and New Spain) is a research project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA-IF). The project aims at disentangling the metaphysical theories used as interpretative lenses to understand metaphysical and physical doctrines formulated in China and New Spain.
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Almost unconceivable and completely formless, prime matter carries out a series of pivotal function in scholastic metaphysics and natural philosophy. The Shadow Within Nature: Ontology and Epistemology of Prime Matter in the Late Middle Ages is a research project focused on reconstructing the debate about this peculiar entity in the last centuries of the Middle Ages. Funded by the FWO through a Senior Research Fellowship, the project is based at KU Leuven, in Belgium.
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According to scholastic hylomorphism, all natural bodies (and for some philosophers, spiritual substances, too) are made of matter and form. Knowing the Shadow: Ontology and Epistemology of Matter in the 13th Century examines how early scholastic philosophers tried to justify that these principles, and particularly, prime matter, are conceivable. The project is implemented ad HU Berlin and sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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The research project focuses on the metaphysics of two of the most important figures in western medieval thought, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon. Fresh light is shone on the extent to which both were indebted to Avicenna and Ibn Gabirol. The project investigates the complex intellectual transmission from the world of medieval Iberia to the scholars of northern Europe, from Toledo to Paris and Oxford. 
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