This book consists of twelve essays dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition. It will be of special interest to students of the classical tradition in western thought, and more generally to students of medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature.

Stephen Gersh is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

1. Ancient Philosophy becomes Medieval Philosophy 2. Philosophy and Humanism 3. The First Principles of Latin Neoplatonism 4. Non-Discursive Thinking in Medieval Platonism 5. The Pseudonymity of Dionysius the Areopagite and the Platonic Tradition 6. Dionysius' On Divine Names and Proclus' Platonic Theology 7. Eriugena's Fourfold Contemplation 8. Eriugena and the Order of the Primordial Causes 9. Eriugena and Heidegger: An Encounter 10. Nicholas of Cusa and the Historical Plato 11. Nicholas of Cusa's Rewriting of the Anselmian Proslogion 12. Nicholas of Cusa as Summation and Singularity