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Medieval Philosophers Research Guide

A select list of Medieval Philosophers.

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Nicholas of Cusa by Meister des Marienlebens (1480)
Kues, Germany

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Primary Sources

Nicolai de Cusa Opera Omnia
Iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita. Lipsiae: In aedibus Felicis Meiner, 1932. BQ 6731 1932 (Stacks)

De Docta Ignorantia
Wilpert, Paul. Hamburg, F. Meiner, 1967-1977. BQ 6732 .G3 1936 no.15 (Stacks)

Nicholas of Cusa on God as Not-Other: A Translation and an Appraisal of De li non Aliud
Hopkins, Jasper. Minneapolis: A.J. Banning Press, 1987. BTZ 100 .N4913 1987 (Stacks)

Nicholas of Cusa’s Dialectical Mysticism: Text, Translation, and Interpretive Study of De Visione Dei
Includes Latin text and English translation of De visione Dei. Hopkins, Jasper. Minneapolis: A.J. Banning Press, 1988, 1985. BVZ 5080 .N53 H67 1988 (Stacks)

The Layman on Wisdom and the Mind / Idiota de Sapientia et de Mente
Translated by M.L. Führer. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1989. B765.N53 I3413 1989 (Stacks) 

Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance: A Translation and an Appraisal of De Docta Ignorantia
Translated by Jasper Hopkins. Minneapolis: A.J. Benning Press, 1985. BQ 6733 .D63 1985 (Stacks)

Vom Verborgenen Gott: De Deo Abscondito; De Quaerendo Deum; De Filiatione Dei
Selected works in German. Translated by E. Bohnenstadt. Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1942. BQ 6732 .G3 1936 no.3 1942 (Stacks)

Secondary Sources

Nicholas of Cusa: A Sketch for a Biography
Meuthen, Erich. Translated from the seventh German edition by David Crowner and Gerald Christianson. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010. BXZ 4705 .N58 M4713 2010 (Stacks)  

A Concise Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa
Hopkins, Jasper. Minneapolis: A.J. Banning Press, 1986. BQ 6734 .H78 1986 (Stacks)

Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance
Casarella, Peter J. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. BXZ 4705 .N58 C77 2006 (Stacks)

Die Metaphysik des Einen bei Nikolaus von Kues: Problemgeschichtliche Stellung und Systematische Bedeutung
Flasch, Kurt. Leiden: Brill, 1973. BQ 6734 .F58 M5 (Stacks)

Ludus Sapientiae: Studien zum Werk und zur Wirkungsgeschichte des Nikolaus von Kues
Senger, Hans Gerhard. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002. B765.N54 S45 2002 (Stacks)

American Cusanus Society Newsletter
Brookville, NY : American Cusanus Society, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 1983 - . BXZ 4705 .N58 A64 (Stacks, latest issues in room 314, current periodicals shelves). Bibliography in each issue

Cusanus-Konkordanz Unter Zugrundelegung der Philosophischen und der Bedeutendsten Theologischen Werke
Zellinger, Eduard. Munchen, M. Hueber, 1960. BQ 6734 .Z51 C9 (Religious Studies and Philosophy Library, room 314)