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  • BJH volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 17 / Issue 3 / November 1984
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b2
    Print publication:
    November 1984
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  • Twelfth-century matter for metaphor: the material view of Plato's Timaeus

  • Tina Stiefel
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 17 / Issue 2 / July 1984
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 169-185
    Print publication:
    July 1984

  • Much has been made of Plato's influence of medieval minds, yet as Raymond Klibansky reminds us, much remains to be learned. The twelfth-century Platonist writings are notably various: Brian Stock and Winthrop Weatherbee have examined the effect of Platonic tradition on twelfth-century poetry and Tullio Gregory and Richard Lemay have added to our understanding of its effect on philosophical and theoretical thought in this period. The rich accretions of Hermetic and astrological material have been studied along with the older Plotinian interpretations and the whole complicated orchestration of these various themes has received minute attention. Moreover, in this diversity of Platonic writings, a strongly imaginative quality is often present. Indeed, as Peter Dronke says,

    They are achievements not only of the rational intellect but of the active imagination. Their cosmological insights are nourished by imaginative springs as much as by the disciplined sources of abstract thinking. Theirs is a realm where sacred visions and profane myth can combine with analytic thought, poetic fantasy with physical and metaphysical speculation. In terms of scholarship it is a realm which, because it is at the borders of several genres, is still in many ways a neglected one.

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