Director’s Name: Carlos Steel
ADDRESS: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
B-3000 Leuven - Belgium
E-MAIL ADDRESS: dwmc@kuleuven.ac.be
- Studies at the Institute of Philosophy normally lead to the degree of Master and/or Doctor in Philosophy (both Dutch and English programmes); specialization in medieval philosophy is possible.
- Specialized conferences: Henry of Ghent; Aristoteles Latinus; Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle.
A. Themes: Cosmology, Zoology, and Averroism in Thirteenth-Century Philosophy
B. Editions in preparation: Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia; Henry Bate, Speculum divinorum and Opera astronomica; Moerbeke’s translations of Aristotle’s De anima and De sensu, of Alexander’s In De sensu and Simplicius’ In De caelo; Ferrandus Hispanus,Metaphysics-commentary; Petrus de Alvernia’s commentary on De motu animalium and his questions on De caelo; Avicenna Latinus (Physica); Averroes Latinus (Physica; De animae beatitudine).
C.: a. in progress:
(1)- Latin Translations of Aristotle’s De motu animalium and its reception in the Middle Ages (including an edition of Petrus de Alvernia’s Sententia super de motibus animalium)
- Lic. Pieter De Leemans
- Prof. Dr. Jozef Brams
(2)- Henry Bate’s Speculum divinorum. Parts XIII-XVI (Critical edition and doctrinal study)
- Lic. Guy Guldentops
- Prof. Dr. Carlos Steel
b. finished
- Petrus de Alvernia’s Quaestiones super De caelo (Critical edition and doctrinal study)
- Dr. Griet Galle
- Prof. Dr. Carlos Steel
- 27 April 2000
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1, Vol. 29 (Leuven University Press).
a) The Center publishes three series:
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Series 1 ; Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Series 2 : Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia ; Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum.
*Recent volumes published in Series 1:
-R. Beyers - J. Brams - D. Sacré - K. Verrycken(éds.), Tradition et traduction. Les textes philosophiques et scientifiques grecs au moyen âge latin. Hommage à F. Bossier, Leuven (Leuven University Press), 1999, 377 p.
- A.Ph. Segonds - C. Steel (éds.), Proclus et la Théologie Platonicienne, Leuven (Leuven University Press), 2000, XLI-699 p.
- S. Perfetti, Aristotle’s Zoology and its Renaissance Commentators (1521-1602), Leuven (Leuven University Press), 2000.
* Other recent publications:
- D. De Smet, Empedocles Arabus. Une lecture néoplatonicienne tardive (Verhandelingen van de Kon. Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der Letteren. Jaargang 60, Nr. 165), Brussel, 1998, 257 p.
- C. Steel - G. Guldentops- P. Beullens (eds.), Aristotle’s Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, I/27), Leuven (Leuven University Press), 1999, 408 p.
- J. Janssens, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ. First Supplement (1990-1994), Louvain-la-Neuve (FIDEM), 1999, xxii-218 p.
- P. Beullens - F. Bossier (eds.), De Historia Animalium. Translatio Guilelmi de Moerbeka. Pars 1 : Lib. I-V (Arist. Lat. XVII, 2.I.1), Leiden (Brill), 2000, XCIII-172 p.
- J. Hamesse - C. Steel (éds.), L’élaboration du vocabulaire philosophique au moyen âge, Louvain-la-Neuve (FIDEM), 2000.
b) Together with the Thomas-Institut of the Universität zu Köln, the Center publishes a review, viz. the Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales.
In September 2001, an international colloquium on Henry of Ghent will be organized.
1) Fellowships - application deadlines: end of January, June, and September
2) Max. 2 years.
(Large number of books and journals on medieval philosophy; microfilms of medieval philosophical mss.).
Institute of Medieval Studies (K.U.Leuven) - Secretary: Prof. Dr. Werner Verbeke; Faculteit Letteren; Blijde Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 Leuven.
The members of the De Wulf-Mansioncentrum can be contacted at the abovementioned address.Their e-mail address is formed as follows:
first-name.name@hiw.kuleuven.ac.be; e.g.: carlos.steel@hiw.kuleuven.ac.be
Members: Pieter Beullens, Fernand Bossier, Jozef Brams, Jos Decorte, Daniel De Smet, Pieter De Leemans, Griet Galle, Guy Guldentops, Jules Janssens, Jan Opsomer, Carlos Steel, Willy Vanhamel, Gerd Van Riel, Gerard Verbeke.