Master Richard Sophista: Abstractiones

Professor Sten Ebbesen Studied classical philology, Russian and Modern Greek in Copenhagen 1964-72, but in 1966-67 at the University of Thessaloniki. BA in Modern Greek 1968, MA in classical philology 1972. Dr. phil. Copenhagen 1981. Honorary doctor University of Gothenburg 2013. Employed as a classicist in Copenhagen since 1972. Main research field: late ancient and medieval logic and semantics. Some 270 scholarly publications, including numerous first editions of Greek and, mainly, Latin texts. Since 1982 editor of Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin. Editor-in-chief of Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aev 1982-, and of Johannes Buridanus, Summulae 1994-.Professor Mary Sirridge is Professor of Philosophy at the Louisiana State University. She received her Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in 1972. Her specializations are aesthetics, ancient and medieval philosophy, and medieval logic and grammar.Professor E. Jennifer Ashworth read history at Girton College, Cambridge and then received a PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in the United States. My entire teaching career was spent in Canada, first at the University of Manitoba from 1964 to 1969, and then at the University of Waterloo in Ontario from 1969 to 2005. I specialize in late medieval and Renaissance logic and semantics.

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It is highly recommended for both specialists and students in the field of medieval logic and semantics, but also for readers who are interested in the broader history and development of education in the arts faculties of the Middle Ages.