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Fabrizio Amerini, Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis On Concepts and Intentional Objects (Leuven University Press, February 2026)

https://lup.be/book/thomas-aquinas-and-hervaeus-natalis-on-concepts-and-intentional-objects/

Thought, in a sense, transforms the world. When we think of a particular thing - Charlie the dog, for example - we always think of it in a universal way: as a dog. Through this act of thinking, Charlie comes to exist in our mind and becomes the dog that is the object of our thought. Explaining how our act of thinking relates to and transforms the reality around us is often considered the hallmark of the modern age. Yet the Middle Ages offer illuminating examples of speculation on the human mind and how it functions.

This book explores the views on mental acts, concepts and objects of the mind of two of the most eminent Dominican authors of the late Middle Ages: Thomas Aquinas and Hervé de Nédéllec, one of his closest followers. By putting Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis directly in conversation with each other Amerini proposes a new interpretative framework for understanding their philosophy of mind and traces the origins of modern accounts of the intentionality of the mind.

Jessica Barr, Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death (University of Notre Dame Press, February 2026)

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268210946/medieval-holy-women-and-the-desire-for-death/

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.

For medieval Christians, only death could offer complete union with God. For medieval women in particular, death was figured as a desirable end to their embodied lives; at least, this is the story told by the clergymen who typically wrote their biographies. Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death questions this assumption and studies visionary narratives, treatises, and spiritual reflections by and about medieval Christian women from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries to reveal how these women understood their own deaths and how their depictions conformed to or departed from the stories told about them.

Rather than focusing on externalities like rituals, revenants, or miracles, Jessica Barr instead tackles the desire for death from the inside, seeking to elucidate the ways in which medieval people anticipated or experienced biological death on a personal level. In narrating their spiritual lives within the framework of deeply held Christian beliefs, these medieval women mystics illustrate how theology and experience converge—and, not infrequently, diverge.

If you don't have any plans for this weekend, how about a trip to the Berlinale, perhaps to see an exciting film about the pre-modern era?
If you'd rather stay at home, we recommend curling up with the recently published book ‘Textiles in Manuscripts’ edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Conklin Abkari, which offers a burst of colour to brighten up the grey winter weather:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783689240011/html

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