His praise in the Fons for a Parisian bridge and for the venerable masters asso- ciated with it assures us of his loyalty to the Englishman, Adam of Balsham, who was known, thanks to the location of his school, as 'Adam of the Little Bridge,' Adam parvipontanus or Adam de ponteparvo. [...] Godfrey's off-handed allusion (lines 163, 164) to: '. swords for "opposition," All the rest "responding" with shields held in position' shows that the dialecticians of his day were accustomed to the stylized roles of the opponens, who pressed for the opposite of a thesis proposed for debate, and of the respondens, who did his best to counter such a move. [...] He defended himself by adverting to the conviction that our music is a counterpart of the music of the spheres and a key to the structure of the human soul. [...] Since the logic of Aristotle had reached the middle ages in company with the Eisagoge of Porphyry, the standard Introduction to the Categories, 24 THE FOUNTAIN OF PHILOSOPHY Godfrey felt it right to warn the incautious that these works open upon a treacherous path: readers would find in them the 'pro- blem of the universal' and many had come to grief in that en- counter. [...] As is still the case with the 'Roman diction,' used by those members of the Latin clergy who may chance to pronounce Latin words, the diphthongs ae and oe were then pronounced simply as e, and that is the way scribes wrote them, unless they remembered the cedilla that stems from the ligatured diphthongs of the Carolingians.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [11]-15) and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 100
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- 9780888442598 9781771102254
- LCCN
- B765.G587
- LCCN Item number
- F6613 1972eb
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- 1 electronic text (89 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
- I: BIBLIOGRAPHY 10
- II: INTRODUCTION 18
- III: DEDICATORY LETTER 32
- IV: THE FOUNTAIN OF PHILOSOPHY 36
- V: NOTES 72
- VI: INDICES 84
- A. Index of Names 86
- A 86
- B 86
- C 86
- D 86
- E 86
- G 86
- H 86
- I 86
- J 86
- L 87
- M 87
- O 87
- P 87
- R 87
- S 87
- T 87
- W 87
- B. Index of Subjects 88
- A 88
- B 88
- C 88
- D 88
- E 88
- F 88
- G 88
- H 89
- I 89
- J 89
- K 89
- L 89
- M 89
- N 89
- O 89
- P 89
- Q 89
- R 89
- S 90
- T 90
- U 90
- V 90
- W 90
- Z 90
