The Research Group PhiLat (Philosophy in Latin) explores the history of medieval Latin philosophy and sciences, with special reference to the key figure of Albert the Great, his Aristotelian philosophical project, and his diversified sources.
Members are engaged in reading groups and an ongoing seminar.
23rd January 2026 | Roundtable + Seminar by Maddalena Sartini ("The Notion of Aptitudo in Albert the Great")
Meet our Latinists!
Full Professor, Director of the Unit
Albert the Great and his reception of Arabic authors, in particular Avicenna and Averroes; Arabic-Latin translation movement; intercultural thought; the history of medieval metaphysics
Albert the Great and his reception of Arabic authors, in particular al-Ġazālī; Ramon Martí and the Dominican schools of language in the Middle Ages; 12th-century thought (School of Chartres)
Albert the Great's meteorology and its reception in the Catena aurea entium by Henry of Hereford
The notion of idoneitas / aptitudo in medieval Latin thought, with special reference to Albert the Great and James of Viterbo
Medieval Latin logic; Albert the Great's elaboration of Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics