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The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward
Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present
selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it
brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental
reorientation of the categories of thought in the Latin West, c.
1100 AD, a thesis that dominated his work from the 1960s onwards.
The volume differs from the usual Variorum collection in that much
of the material is hitherto unpublished, distributed only in
'samizdat' form to Cranz's friends and colleagues. Nancy Struever
has collated and edited the versions of these papers, and supplied
the necessary annotation for his references. It includes, too, some
of the research related to his editions of the Late Antique
Aristotelian commentator, Alexander Aphrodisiensis, and his early
research on the reception of Classical and early Christian
political thought, demonstrating the pertinence of this to the
reorientation thesis. Cranz's argument, centering on Anselm's
reading of Augustine, and Abelard's of Boethius, but dealing with
Renaissance and Reformation figures such as Petrarch and Valla,
Cusanus and Luther, Nifo and Zabarella, claims a reorientation in
speculative genres of the most basic premises of the relations of
mind, language, and reality. Cranz's meticulous close readings of
the texts make the case that the reorientation was so deep and
thorough as to problematise our modern readings of Hellenic
thinkers such as Aristotle, and so radical as to be 'almost
invisible' to the Medieval and post-Medieval thinkers. The
definitions and distinctions of thematics in this collection are of
intrinsic interest, then, to Classical and Late Antique, Medieval,
Renaissance, and Early Modern intellectual historians. Indeed,
Cranz's work vindicates serious intellectual historical inquiry as
indispensable to our understanding of the basic motives and
accomplishments of the culture of Pre-Modernity.
This volume brings together Professor Cranz's published studies on
Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the
time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of
Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of the
Renaissance. Particular attention is given to patterns of
development in Cusanus' thought as he wrestled with problems of
divine transcendence and the limits of human capacities. Overall,
these studies also reveal Professor Cranz's interest in the larger
changes in Western modes of thought during the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, which define our ways of thinking as different from
those of Antiquity.
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