Jack Ford
I'm a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL) currently finishing my thesis on 12th-century approaches to psychology.
My thesis itself explores the relationship between sense perception and 'affectivity' (affectus) in treatises 'On the Soul' (De anima) written by two religious groups, Cistercian monks and canons of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris.
I have a wider interest in medieval understandings of:
- Natural philosophy and theology (esp. cosmology, medicine and the body)
- Gender and women writers
- Mysticism and religious practices
- Symbolism and imagery
- Learning, scholasticism and the universities
Please get in touch by email or Twitter if you work on similar topics!
UCL webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/phd-community/jack-ford
Supervisors: Professor Sophie Page (UCL) and Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg Instute)
My thesis itself explores the relationship between sense perception and 'affectivity' (affectus) in treatises 'On the Soul' (De anima) written by two religious groups, Cistercian monks and canons of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris.
I have a wider interest in medieval understandings of:
- Natural philosophy and theology (esp. cosmology, medicine and the body)
- Gender and women writers
- Mysticism and religious practices
- Symbolism and imagery
- Learning, scholasticism and the universities
Please get in touch by email or Twitter if you work on similar topics!
UCL webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/phd-community/jack-ford
Supervisors: Professor Sophie Page (UCL) and Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg Instute)
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Medicine, I contend, thus had a practical use in Cistercian and Victorine life to train monks and canons as spiritual doctors, capable of diagnosing imbalances of the body and mind that stymied deeper affective and contemplative relationships with God. This ‘medical affectivity’ also had an extensive afterlife: being systematised by the canon Hugh of Fouilloy, and then communicated to the Franciscan theologians of the early thirteenth century by the Cistercian monk Alcher of Clairvaux.
In doing so, I suggest that medieval affectivity must be sub-divided further into two dimensions – the horizontal and the vertical – to understand the dual role of the emotional faculty of the soul, the affectus, in first cleansing the soul’s thoughts and affections and, secondly, facilitating the practice of contemplation.
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Medicine, I contend, thus had a practical use in Cistercian and Victorine life to train monks and canons as spiritual doctors, capable of diagnosing imbalances of the body and mind that stymied deeper affective and contemplative relationships with God. This ‘medical affectivity’ also had an extensive afterlife: being systematised by the canon Hugh of Fouilloy, and then communicated to the Franciscan theologians of the early thirteenth century by the Cistercian monk Alcher of Clairvaux.
In doing so, I suggest that medieval affectivity must be sub-divided further into two dimensions – the horizontal and the vertical – to understand the dual role of the emotional faculty of the soul, the affectus, in first cleansing the soul’s thoughts and affections and, secondly, facilitating the practice of contemplation.