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Document Details : Title: Neuplatonismus an der Universität Heidelberg? Subtitle: Johannes Wenck († 1460) als Kommentator des Corpus Dionysiacum Author(s): MELIADÒ, Mario Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 88 Issue: 1 Date: 2021 Pages: 143-187 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.88.1.3289286 Abstract : John Wenck of Herrenberg († 1460), professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg, has been so far mostly known for his sharp controversy with Nicholas of Cusa († 1464). In his Apologia doctae ignorantiae, Cusanus posited an explicit opposition between Wenck’s Aristotelianism and the way of ‘learned ignorance’, representing the latter as rooted in the teaching of (Pseudo-)Dionysius the Areopagite and Plato. Challenging this rigid polemical scheme, which has often been uncritically adopted in modern scholarship, the present study focuses on Wenck’s reception of the Neoplatonic tradition and investigates, in particular, his unpublished and hitherto neglected commentaries on the works of Dionysius. Based on two manuscripts (BAV, Cod. Pal. lat. 149 and Cod. Pal. lat. 1590), the analysis reconstructs methods, sources, and doctrinal contents of Wenck’s exposition of the Corpus Dionysiacum. It sheds light on Wenck’s allegiance to Albert the Great, on his unconventional use of the writings of John Scotus Eriugena, and ultimately proposes a re-contextualization of Wenck’s intellectual project in the academic and humanistic culture of the 15th century. |
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