Berthold of Moosburg explained

Berthold of Moosburg (died after 1361^[1]) was a German Dominican theologian and neo-Platonist of the 14th century, teaching in Regensburg in 1327.^[2]

His Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli, written between 1340 and 1361,^[3] was a major statement of the importance for Platonism of Proclus.^[4] He opposed his Christian-Platonic synthesis to Aristotelian philosophy.^[5] His sources included Theodoric of Freiberg and Albertus Magnus.^{[6] [7]}

Works

• Expositio super elementationem theologicam Procli 184-211. De animabus, edited by Loris Sturlese, Rome, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1974.
• Bertoldo di Moosburg, Tabula contentorum in Expositione super Elementationem theologicam Procli, edited by A. Beccarisi, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2000.
• Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli, in Corpus philosophorum Teutonicorum medii aevi, vol. 6, edited by Loris Sturlese:
  • 6/1: Prologus. Propositiones 1-13, Meiner, Hamburg 1984.
  • 6/2: Propositiones 14-34, Meiner, Hamburg 1986.
  • 6/3: Propositiones 35-65, Meiner, Hamburg 2001.
  • 6/4: Propositiones 66-107, Meiner, Hamburg 2003.
  • 6/6: Propositiones 136–159, Meiner, Hamburg 2007
  • 6/7: Propositiones 160-183, Meiner, Hamburg 2003

References

• Markus Fűhrer, Stephen Gersh, Dietrich of Freiberg and Berthold of Moosburg, in Stephen Gersh (ed.), Interpreting Proclus from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 299-317.
• Antonella Sannino, Berthold of Moosburg's Hermetic Sources, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 63, 2000 (2000), pp. 243–258

Notes

1. http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom03.htm Ashley/Dominicans: 3 Mystics 1300s
2. http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/la01.html Gieraths: Life in Abundance – 1
3. D. N. Sedley, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy (2003), p. 327.
4. [André Vauchez]
5. George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker, Routledge History of Philosophy (1999), p. 235.
6. Pasquale Porro, The Medieval Concept of Time: Studies on the Scholastic Debate and Its Reception in Early Modern Philosophy (2001), p. 29.
7. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-great/ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

See also

• Neoplatonism
• Proclus
• Theodoric of Freiberg