Philosophy played a crucial role in shaping the “intellectual geography” of Europe between 1250 and 1450, as it had embraced an articulated set of disciplines such as Logic, Physics, Ethics or Metaphysics, which had developed through the reception of Aristotle’s works, as well as thanks to a new use of the old distinction between ‘trivium’ and ‘quadrivium’

Scholarship has hitherto considered the medieval University of Paris responsible for this setting and its dissemination. Consequently, the development of specific philosophical teaching and learning practices in other universities – mainly Bologna – has been seen as either an ‘exception‘ or a ‘variant’ with respect to the Parisian model.

The proposed research project aims to go beyond this univocal reading by bringing the multifaceted cultural network of the Regnum Italiae into the broader picture of European intellectual history and, consequently, by moving from the Italian Exception to the European Philosophical Heritage.