The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural world led Pope Pius XII to declare Albert the patron saint of the natural sciences. Dante Alighieri acknowledged a substantial debt to Albert’s work, and in the
Divine Comedyplaced him equal with his celebrated student and brother Dominican, Thomas Aquinas.
In this book, the first full, scholarly biography in English for nearly a century, Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. narrate Albert’s key contributions to natural philosophy and the history of science, while also revealing the insights into medieval life and customs that his writings provide.
Irven M. Resnickis professor and chair of excellence in philosophy and religion at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.is professor emeritus of classics at Louisiana State University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"Resnick and Kitchell, who have long toiled on the Albertian corpus, provide a lively, accessible introduction to his life and thought."
"St. Albert the Great’s irrepressible interest in the natural world, and his encyclopaedic knowledge, is admirably charted in this new intellectual biography . . . Having translated both of Albert’s works on animals, Resnick and Kitchell were ideally placed as biographers, and their volume is both informative and readable.”
“Resnick and Kitchell have done heroic work in sorting out both the career of Albertus and the world he struggled to understand.”
“[A] compact and accessible work . . . if this is the culmination of Resnick and Kitchell?s work on Albert, it is a worthy capstló)
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