Latin and Paleography
The KCL Latin Philosophy Reading Group
In the spring 2024 we are meeting every Wednesday from 12 to 1 p.m., in the Philosophy building, room 508. Currently we are reading one of Duns Scotus’s quodlibetal questions on free will. In earlier terms we read from Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, as well as from Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations. Everyone is welcome to join, regardless of Latin proficiency.
Virtual Paleography Group
We meet once every week via Zoom, right now on Fridays at 4 p.m. London time, and read and transcribe from a manuscript. Currently (Spring 2024) we are working on Buridan’s commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics (Vat. Urb. 198).
In earlier semesters we read from Peter Auriol’s Quodlibet; Peter of Auvergne’s Sentences commentary; De Fonseca’s De sensu (in a modern cursive script); John Buridan’s commentary on the De memoria (in a 14th-century anglicana script); from the Life of St. Cuthbert by Bede (Carolingian script); and from an anonymous Vatican Lateran ms. (14th-century gothic book hand).
The paleography skills of the group participants occupy a big range, and everyone is welcome. It is easier than it looks like! If interested, please send me an email.
Archive
In earlier semesters I had lead the CSC Latin Reading Group, where we read some of Augustine’s sermons, and earlier the Itinerarium Egeriae, the travel diary of a 4th-century Spanish pilgrim woman traveling to the Holy Land.
I also used to coordinate the Fordham Philosophy Latin Reading Group, a group of students and faculty whose primary interest is medieval philosophy.