This book deals with Johannes Scottus Eriugena, an Irish scholar at
the Court of Charles the Bald in France in the second half of the
ninth century - to be clearly distinguished from John Duns Scotus
(1264-1308), after whom `Scotist' philosophy is named. Eriugena's
main work, Periphyseon (de divisione naturae), is a remarkable
attempt at a real intellectual synthesis between the Bible and
Neoplatonist philosophy. It was not looked upon with great favour
in the West except by the mystics and, more recently, by German
Idealist philosophers of the last century. Now, however, because of
the growth of interest in Medieval Studies, there is an increasing
curiosity about Eriugena and his work - but there has been no
comprehensive book about him since that of M. Cappuyns in 1933.
Bringing together the results of the most recent research on
Eriugena, this book discusses his background in Ireland and life in
France, and of his career as teacher, controversialist, translator,
and poet. It gives an extended and careful summary of the
Periphyseon, and the first translation into English of the brief
Homily on the Prologue to St.John's Gospel.
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