Nathan Ron

@noam_goldberg1 @shauli אין מילים

הסיפור כולו: תחנת נבון בירושלים הבוקר. צילום: יונתן כהן

@CRRS_Toronto Erasmus hated hunting - Falconry is a form of hunting, isn't it? He repeatedly expressed it in 'Education of a Christian Prince' and 'Praise of Folly.'

Our annual Erasmus Lecture features Yannis Hadjinicolaou from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His talk, “The Art of Falconry: Global Cultural Technique and Political Iconology,” will consider how images of falconry and the birds themselves have shaped ideas of rulership.

@samdubbelman My kind of Saint

Or, St. Nemo, the patron saint of not-readers who are true readers, not of the part but the whole; radicals willing to retrieve universals after nominalism, post-structuralism, and anti anti-relativism; of knowledge beyond the sublimation of fact and value, God beyond his death…

Our patron not-saint Cusanus: learnedness of not-learnedness, the unknowing knowing of not-reading and the profound knowledge (Nous) of the Absolute (@GregorySMoss2) beyond the wall of books, including their authorial intent, appropriation, systems, etc.

My review of Michael F. Cusato, Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions. (Medieval Lives.) London: Reaktion Books, 2023 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

@samdubbelman His pope had the idea, which Cusanus shared, of getting there, and significant actions were made- by both of them.

Maybe I should do a series of posts on Nicholas of Cusa in Asia…

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Not a bad spot to work on manuscripts of Nicolas of Cusa’s sermons (Vat. last. 1244 & 1245).

@samdubbelman @CusanusSociety And, at the same time, to prepare the English king for a forthcoming crusade against the Turks.

On August 15, 1451 Nicholas of Cusa was appointed a peace mediator to England by Pope Nicholas V during the Hundred Years War, a trip which never materialized. Just learning this... @CusanusSociety

@samdubbelman Intriguing title.

I had the honor of chairing the dissertation defense of Ye Naing Oo, titled “TOWARDS A MYANMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY: THE POWERLESSNESS OF GOD AS PEOPLE-POLITICAL STRUGGLE FOR HUMANITY.” It passed with merits, and joins the critique on classical omnipotence.

@samdubbelman There's nothing like the smell of Norwegian-North Sea oil in the morning

In 2012 Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve won the Pulitzer Prize, making bold claims about how the discovery of Lucretius, De rerum natura changed the world. On February 2025 Greenblatt revisits the Swerve at the Jaipur Literature Festival. youtube.com/watch?v=jnRFsV…

@samdubbelman @CusanusSociety An incidental confusion?

A 15th c. printing of Plutarch's Apophthegmata (ca. 1473-4), included an excerpt from Nicholas of Cusa's Idiota dialogues, but--get this--attributed to PETRARCH! @CusanusSociety data.cerl.org/istc/ip00818000

@samdubbelman Reuchlin the Hebraist-Scholar as an involved public Intellectual - that's my angle.

Open access piece by @NathanRon1 Nathan Ron, "Johannes Ruchlin (1455-1522): A Unique Philosemetic Public Intellectual," The European Legacy 28 (2023): 7250741. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@Nina_Power_ @samdubbelman Wow indeed!

Horrah! Long duree doooooooom

@samdubbelman @lqjournal I’ll read it soon and eagerly

Rarely can you find new things to research on Martin Luther, right? Well....the next issue of @lqjournal will do just that... Here is a sneak peak....

@samdubbelman @CusanusSociety Thanks, Sam. I'm still busy with Erasmus and Capito, but I will let you know ASAP.

@NathanRon1 @CusanusSociety Yes, I am well aware, hence the tag! I appreciate your work, we need it in the Cusanus guild. Christian scholars in general, need it as well. Keep it up! (and let me know when you want to collaborate on a piece together...)

Check out the virtual exhibit "Between Kues and Constantinople: Cusanus as diplomat, church politician and peace broker." @CusanusSociety. (Maybe @NathanRon1 will disagree about the "Fredensvermittler" but it is still a great exhibit!) #s0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">…ungen.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/cusanus-als-di…

@aufgehenderRest @samdubbelman Sam, correct me if I’m wrong. I assume Cribratio Alkorani is not included. Oh, but then it’s not a SPIRITUAL text.

This book ... is a complete masterpiece

@Erik__Lundeen Yes, a volume will appear.

@NathanRon1 This looks fantastic! I’d love to read these presentations if a conference volume comes out of this

University of Strasbourg, June 16-17 -- Intriguing topics and presenters!

@samdubbelman @erin_zoutendam @Erik__Lundeen @CusanusSociety Well written, and even dared to mention the (polemical) Cribratio Alkorani and Cusa's death while being engaged in a (aborted) crusade.

Josh Hollmann, "Nicholas of Cusa," EBR, vol. 21 (2023). Little attention has been paid to Cusanus's practice of scriptural interpretation. This was investigated by Rudolph Haubst (1950s), but needs more attention today. @erin_zoutendam @Erik__Lundeen @CusanusSociety. /1

@samdubbelman I translated into Hebrew a significant part of Lyndal Roper’s book. She was supposed to write the introduction. Did not happen yet.

New acquisitions, from William Durandus to Judith Herman.