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Aug 28, 2003 · John Scottus Eriugena. Johannes (c.800–c.877), who signed himself as “Eriugena” in one manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as “the Irishman” ( scottus —in the ninth century Ireland was referred to as “ Scotia Maior ” and its inhabitants as “ scotti ”) is the most significant Irish intellectual of the ...
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John Scotus Eriugena, [a] also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, [b] John the Scot, or John the Irish-born [4] ( c. 800 – c. 877) [5] was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him "the most astonishing person of the ninth century ". [6]
Jun 24, 2020 · By Joshua Robinson. The Periphyseon (On Nature), or De divisione naturae, as it is also known, is the masterwork of John Scotus Eriugena, the leading intellectual figure at the Carolingian court of Charles the Bald in the ninth century.
Summary. In the 860s John Scottus Eriugena wrote the Periphyseon (later entitled De divisione naturae, that is, “On the Division of Nature”). The Periphyseon is a long work, filling nearly six hundred columns of the Patrologia Latina volume and containing approximately 217,450 words, written in the form of an extended dialogue between two ...
De Divisione Naturae ("The Division of Nature") is the title given by Thomas Gale to his edition (1681) of the work originally titled by 9th-century theologian Johannes Scotus Eriugena Periphyseon.
Jan 9, 2022 · 1987. Topics. Periphyseon, De Divisione Naturae, The Division of Nature, theologian, Eriugena. Collection. opensource. Language. English. The work is arranged in five books. The original plan was to devote one book to each of the four divisions, but the topic of creation required expansion.
4 See the suggestive remarks by Jean A. Potter, introduction to John the Scot, Periphyseon: On the Division of Nature, ed. and trans. Myra L. Uhlfelder (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1976), pp. xl-xli. 5 John Scotus Eriugena, Periphyseon (De divisione naturae) (hereafter cited as Periphyseon), ed. H.
