Texts on Astral Sciences in Medieval Europe

Begun in September 2015, this project aims to better understand the circulation of ideas about astral sciences in late medieval Europe, particularly after the introduction of Aristotelian rationalism from Arabic sources.  It uses a two-pronged approach.  First, it aims to give a better overview of key texts, so that the knowledge gained from exploring this project would be useful for even the most rigorous of scholars, but could equally provide an intuitive introduction to the material for a nonspecialist.  Second, it analyzes the texts themselves in order to identify which types of texts should be accurately considered astrological, astronomical, cosmological, or belonging to other categories which are often (confusingly) conflated.

More accessible. More rigorously defined.