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The volume is dedicated to Berthold of Moosburg’s commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. This overlooked work from the 14th century proposed, as an alternative to the prevailing Aristotelian metaphysics, a superior wisdom of the Good articulated within the Platonic tradition, both pagan and Christian.

Dragos Calma, Ph.D. (2008), Sorbonne University – Paris, is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at University College Dublin. On Neoplatonism, he has published Neoplatonism in the Middles Ages (with Brepols, 2 vols, 2016) and Reading Proclus and Book of Causes (with Brill, vol. 1 in 2019 and vol. 2 in 2020). Evan King, Ph.D. (2017), University of Cambridge, is a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project NeoplAT: Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions (University College Dublin). His monograph, Supersapientia. Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists, is forthcoming in 2021. Contributors are: Henryk Anzulewicz, Alessandra Beccarisi, Dragos Calma, Michael W. Dunne, Tommaso Ferro, Stephen Gersh, Wouter Goris, Paul Hellmeier, Evan King, Theo Kobusch, Ezequiel Ludueña, Alessandro Palazzo, Fiorella Retucci, Sylvain Roudaut, Loris Sturlese.