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María Cecilia Rusconi, Heymericus de Campo. Opus circa speculare enigma universi, Turnhout, 2024.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 292C
liii + 89 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61053-5
€ 150 (excl. VAT)

Although he has not yet been widely studied, Heymericus de Campo – Heymeric van den Velde – (1395-1460) played a role of some importance among the philosophers of the 15th century. He worked as a Master of Arts at the University of Cologne, where he was the main representative of the followers of Albertus Magnus (Scola Albertistarum), as member of the Bursa Laurentiana. He subsequently became a professor of theology and rector of the University of Louvain in 1435. The Opus circa speculare enigma universi corresponds to this final period of his career.

In this treatise, Heymericus presents a diagram that represents the principles of universal knowledge. The so-called enigma universi constitutes, according to Heymericus, a certain “exemplar, paradigm or visible mirror image of the archetypal world.” Although it does not contain any illustration, the entire work is concerned with a detailed description and interpretation of the enigma. It is a geometric image composed of four circles and four concentric triangles, colored in blue, green, red and black on a white background, through which the human intellect is able to reflect its intellectual knowledge on sense and imagination.

María Cecilia Rusconi is a professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Lanús (UNLA), Buenos Aires, and a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She has published extensively on later medieval metaphysics and theory of cognition, with a particular focus on the thought of Nicholas of Cusa and Heymericus de Campo.

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