Les jeunes et les vieux dans l’œuvre de Robert Holcot († 1349) : sources bibliques et philosophiques
The theme of the ages of life emerges as a relevant interpretive framework for the work of Robert Holcot, a Dominican friar who died in 1349. Holcot knows above all three ages: childhood (pueritia), youth (iuventus), and old age (senectus). In his Introitus to a lost commentary on the Genesis, he dr...
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| Résumé: | The theme of the ages of life emerges as a relevant interpretive framework for the work of Robert Holcot, a Dominican friar who died in 1349. Holcot knows above all three ages: childhood (pueritia), youth (iuventus), and old age (senectus). In his Introitus to a lost commentary on the Genesis, he draws on medical theories inherited from Galen, Avicenna, but also Aristotle, who define old age as a process of cooling. In his commentary on the Book of Wisdom, lectio 54, he takes up in extenso Aristotle’s portrait of youth in the Rhetoric, which he interprets as a text of moral philosophy. The rhetorical framework established by Holcot in the texts studied outlines, in an almost humanistic way, a reflection of his own academic community, as it is mirrored in its sociological composition and its pedagogical and moral objectives, through the lens of its scientific and literary sources. |
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