Video Library

Scholastic Philosophy

Lydia Schumacher, The De anima tradition in Early Franciscan Thought: A Case Study in Avicenna’s Reception
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings I.

Neil Lewis, Kilwardby, Rufus and Grosseteste on the Infinite Replication of Prime Matter
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Grégory ClesseUnperceivable Philosophical Entities through Medieval Illuminators’ Eyes: Text and Miniatures in the French Translation of the De proprietatibus rerum 
Workshop: Glimpses of the Invisible: Visualising the Principles of Nature Before the Rise of Modernity.

Nicola Polloni, Roger Bacon on Matters, Potencies, and Change
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Yael Kedar, Species and matter in Bacon’s De multiplicatione specierum
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings I.

Nicola Polloni, Roger Bacon on Matter, Elements, and Mixtures: Comparative Perspectives
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Mattia Cipriani, From Theory to Practice in Medieval Science: the Case of Thomas of Cantimpré’s Liber de Natura Rerum
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings I.

Thanasis Rinotas, Aristotle and Medieval Alchemy in the 13th and Early 14th Century
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Elena Baltuta, Was Pain Intentional in the 13th Century? Robert Kilwardby’s Answer
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings II.

Jeffrey Brower, Matter as Pure Potentiality in Aquinas
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

David Cory, Matter and Body as Correlative Principles in Thomas Aquinas
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings I.

Therese Cory, Aquinas on Experience and Its Scope
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

David Cory, The “Obscure and Hidden” Work of the Vegetal Soul in Thomas Aquinas
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Thomas Harb, Seeing Dark Things: How the Epistemology of Matter Differs from the Epistemology of Privation
Colloquium: Medieval Philosophical Gatherings I.

Francesca Galli, In un’ottica di fede. La perspectiva duecentesca e le sue applicazioni ‘extra-disciplinari’
Seminari di Filosofia Medievale dell’Università di Messina, 2025.

Celia Lopez, Experience and Self-Knowledge in Petrus Hispanus’s Theory of the Soul
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Russell Friedman, Making Sense of Aquinas: Auriol on Prime Matter, Pure Potency, and Existence
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Cecilia Trifogli, Thomas Wylton on Matter and Quantity
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

José Higuera Rubio, Flowing Points, Wavered Lines and Twisting Surfaces: The Geometrical Embodiment of Elemental Composition
Workshop: Glimpses of the Invisible: Visualising the Principles of Nature Before the Rise of Modernity.

José Higuera Rubio, Ars experimentalis: Experience in Demonstrative and Productive Disciplines
Conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with Nature, Self, and God.

Russell Friedman, The Plurality of Forms Debate in Brief: John of Jandun
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Zita Toth, Bodies without Matter? Peter Auriol and John of Jandun on Planets and Stars
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Roberto Zambiasi, The Potential Infinite Divisibility of Matter as Logical Incompossibility
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Jenny Pelletier, Unity in the Plural: Mind and Action in the Fourteenth Century
Global Scholasticism 2026 Lecture Series

Sylvain Roudaut, John Buridan on the Status and Properties of Matter
Conference: Materia, 气/Qi, and Their Epistemes.

Aurélien Robert, John Wyclif on Prime Matter
Conference: The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Early Qing China.

Nicola Polloni, Nicholas of Cusa and Gundissalinus: A Prelude on Matter
Conference: East-Western Transmission of Knowledge.