The Moral Treatise on the Eye

by Limoges, Peter of; Newhauser, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780888443014
• ISBN10: 0888443013
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-01
• Publisher: Pontifical Inst of Medieval studies

Summary

This volume makes The Moral Treatise on the Eyeavailable for the first time in English, and also contains an introduction to Peter of Limoges, his intellectual interests, the sources of the Treatise, and its place in the theological and scientific developments of the late thirteenth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Introduction	p. xi
The Moral Treatise on the Eye
Prologue	p. 3
On the Number of Parts Comprising the Eye	p. 5
On the Order of the Parts in the Composition of the Eye	p. 8
On the Number of Types of Vision	p. 12
On the Means of Vision	p. 14
On the Organ in Which Vision Is Completed	p. 16
On 13 Extraordinary Phenomena That Are Related to Lessons Concerning Eyesight	p. 18
On Moral Instruction According to Twelve Properties That Have Been Ascertained in the Corporeal Eye	p. 45
On Seven Distinctions of the Eyes According to the Distinction of the Seven Capital Vices	p. 75
On the Costliness of the Eyes in Respect to the Other Members of the Human Body	p. 108
On Suffering the Loss of the Corporeal Eyes with Equanimity	p. 111
On the Education of Students Based on the Seven Conditions That Are Required for Sight	p. 114
On the Instruction of Prelates Based on Seven Properties of the Eyes	p. 146
On the Four Things Spiritual Eyes Should Contemplate Continually	p. 170
On Three Visible Things That Delight the Corporeal Eye	p. 180
On the Sevenfold Eye of the Divine Gaze	p. 189
Emended Readings and Significant Variations between Pri and P7P8	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 205
Index of Sources and Analogues	p. 235
Index of Names	p. 258
Index of Subjects	p. 263
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