Pointing to inclinations : Albertus Magnus' physiognomy as a scientific and theological nexus
Heather Thornton McRae
This dissertation explores the physiognomy of Albertus Magnus, which is contained within his commentary on De animalibus, three works animals by Aristotle. provides an opportunity to demonstrate medieval intellectual world view that body and soul were connected, both theologically medically. Magnus also exemplify reintroduction into Latin Christendom in twelfth thirteenth centuries through deep textual connections physiognomy, medicine, theories classical Mediterranean intermediary Islamic world. Physiognomies like contribute ideas what constitutes a scientia building upon past scholarship astrology, hagiography, other aspects premodern have largely been rejected until recent decades.
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