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This is the first substantial treatment of John of Salisbury’s views on Aristotelian science. In his great work on logic and education, John of Salisbury proposes an Aristotelian foundation for education, research, and science. Theories and methods of science and scholarship were central topics in twelfth-century discourse, and John is apparently the first to propose use of the entire Organon, the texts of which were to become very influential and important in the thirteenth century. However, his precise knowledge and understanding of Aristotle has never been thoroughly examined. The present book challenges the view that John read, understood, and used the entire Organon. It pays particular attention to the Metalogicon, but it draws upon a variety of other sources as well in arguing that John did not in fact study the Ars nova with any care, and that he probably never read the most important text, the Posterior Analytics, in its entirety. The conclusions of the book have important consequences not only for our conception of John of Salisbury, but also for our views and understanding of twelfth-century Aristotelianism and science in general.

Logic [Medieval ] --- Logica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Logique médiévale --- Medieval logic --- Middeleeuwse logica --- Logic, Medieval. --- Logic --- Early works to 1800. --- John, --- Aristotle --- Aristotle. --- Knowledge --- Logic. --- Influence. --- Logic, Medieval --- Science --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, ca.1115-1180 --- Influence --- Early works to 1800 --- John, - of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, - -1180

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The English scholar John of Salisbury was a major intellectual of the twelfth century whose contributions to the fields of education, grammar, political theory, and rhetoric are well-known. His significance is amplified further in John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance , in which John D. Hosler examines his heretofore overlooked contributions to the ideals and practice of medieval warfare. This book surveys an array of military topics present within John’s extant corpus, including generalship, strategy, tactics, logistics, military organization, and training; it also collates John’s military lexicon and charts the influence of classical texts upon his conceptualization of war. John of Salisbury, it argues, deserves inclusion in the roll-call of military theoreticians and writers of pre-Reformation Europe.

Military art and science --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- History --- John, --- Giovanni, --- Iohannes, --- Jan, --- Jean, --- Joannes Saresberiensis, --- Johann, --- John of Salisbury, --- Parvus, Joannes, --- Salesberiensis, Johannes, --- Salisbury, Jan z, --- Salisbury, John of, --- Philosophy. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Europe --- History, Military.