‎Alessandro Palazzo, Francesca Bonini, Amalia Cerrito (eds)‎
‎Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination. Acts of the XXVII Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM, Trento 12-15 September 2023‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xx + 564, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Italian, French. ISBN 9782503619811.‎

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‎Summary This volume offers a comprehensive examination of medieval conceptions of foreknowledge-understood both as divine prescience and as the human capacity to anticipate future events-across a range of intellectual traditions. It investigates key themes such as future contingents, prophetic discourse (both divinely inspired and natural), divinatory dreams, eschatology, scientific prognostication (in astrology and medicine), and conjectural disciplines such as geomancy, physiognomy, meteorology, and magic. Through historical reconstructions and doctrinal analyses, the contributions illuminate the theoretical frameworks and distinctive positions advanced by medieval authors within diverse cultural and scholarly contexts. Building on an extensive body of prior research, the volume documents the multiplicity of medieval strategies for engaging with the future, thereby challenging the historiographical assumption that the notion of an open and indeterminate future emerged only in the Modern period. TABLE OF CONTENTS Alessandro Palazzo (Universit di Trento), Prognostication in the Middle Ages: Preliminary Remarks Medieval Doctrines and Debates on Future Contingents, Prescience, and Freedom Enrico Moro (Universit di Padova), Anatomia della caduta. Agostino sulla compatibilit tra prescienza divina e libert del primo peccato (lib. arb. III, 3, 6-8) Pasquale Porro (Universit di Torino), Does God Really Know Contingent Events as they Are? Revisiting (once again) the Consolation of Philosophy, Book V Marcia L. Colish (?), Anselm's Boethius: Necessity and Future Contingents in De concordia Josep Puig Montada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias (c. 9) and its medieval Arabic translation. The first step toward a fruitful reception Ginevra Tozzi, (IMT - Scuola Alti Studi Lucca), Future Contingents in Arabic Logic: Towards a Genealogy of F?r?b?'s and Avicenna's Commentaries on the Ninth Chapter of De Interpretatione Martha Beullens (ULB), Conna tre le futur. Le cas des futurs contingents ut in pluribus chez Albert le Grand Amos Corbini (Universit di Torino), Alcune polemiche di Ugolino di Orvieto sulla preconoscenza divina dei futuri contingenti Riccardo Fedriga and Costantino Marmo (Universit di Bologna), Rodolfo Brito sui futuri contingenti Peter Hartman (Loyola University Chicago), The Presence of the Past: Durand of St.-Pour ain and Peter of Palude on Intuitive Cognition of the Past Gonzalo Tinajeros Arce (Universidade de Bras lia), Future Contingents in arguments of political censorship: Modal propositions in contrast. Solorzano Pereira Stands up to the censors of De Indiarum Iure (1638) Prophecy in Jewish, Islamic, and Latin traditions Meryem Sebti (CNRS), D chiffrer l'Invisible : interpr tation (ta'b?r) et ex g se (ta'w?l) dans la philosophie islamique Germano Gorga (IMT - Scuola Alti Studi Lucca), The Epistemology of Astrology and Prophethood from Ab? Ma??ar to Avicenna's Metaphysics Ying Zhang (Shanghai - East China Normal University), The Most Perfect Prophet for Maimonides: Moses and Abraham in The Guide of the Perplexed Anna Rodolfi (Universit di Firenze), Angels and Prophets in Thirteenth-Century Latin Prophetology Andrea Colli (Universit di Bologna), The Church at the End of Times. Prophecy and Eschatology in Albert the Great's Sermons and Biblical Commentaries Paul Clarke, O.P., Prophecy's Future and Prophecies Past: Thomas Aquinas, Peter of John Olivi, and the Prophetic Economy Prognostic Sciences and Divination Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute - London) Scientia stellarum ex te et illis est: The Two Sources of Knowledge for Predicting the Future, in Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Michael Scot's Liber introductorius Giulio Navarra (Universit di Foggia), Celestial Influence and Astral Magic. Between the Gh?yat al-?ak?m and the 'Kind?-circle Alexander' Barbora Koc nov (Prague - Czech Academy of Sciences), Non-astrological Methods of Weather Forecasting in Medieval Latin Astrological Works: A Contradiction? Alessandro Palazzo (Universit di Trento), Geomantic Collections: Structure, Meaning, and Function Jens Ole Schmitt (LMU Munich), Barhebraeus on Physiognomical Prognosis Anna Gili (Universit di Padova), Between Tradition and Medical Practice. Prognosis in al-Ma??s?'s Kit?b al-Malak? Mario Loconsole (Universit del Salento), Somnium coadiuvat ad curationem. The Curative Power of Dreams in Pietro d'Abano's Conciliator Roberto Limonta (Universit di Salerno), Malae divinationes: Demons' Foreknowledge and Semiotics of Lying in Augustine's De divinatione daemonum Vesa Hirvonen (University of Eastern Finland), Madmen's special capacities in Nicole Oresme‎