NexQuaest is a web application for the graphical representation of the syntax relations in an argumentative text. It was conceived to summarize and view medieval questions which presume logical divisions and a specific structure of argumentation (using elements like articles, parts, arguments, responses, conclusions, corollaries etc.).

The main concepts involved in this kind of structure are the item and the relation. An item is a distinct fragment of text which functions as an unit of argumentation. It is represented here by a title and a text fragment contained in a box. The basic relation is the parent→child relation, which expresses the consecutiveness of the items (e.g. from an argument to a conclusion; in this case, the argument is the parent and the conclusion is the child).

Here the link to the application:  http://nexquaest.thesis-project.ro/


This application was developed with the support of the THESIS ERC Project no. 313339.


Developer: Mihai Maga, UBB-Cluj-Napoca

Contact: mihai.maga@ubbcluj.ro

ERC-THESIS Project news

Fourth Annual THESIS Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts, Cape Greco, Cyprus, 23-30 october 2017 [program]


-THESIS will held 2 sessions at  XIV International Congress of the SIEPM: Homo-Natura-Mundus: Human Beings and their Relationships, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 24-28 July 2017

-During the XIV International Congress of the SIEPM: THESIS will launch the new publication of the collection Studia Sententiarum : http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503573274-1


-ERC accepted the request of an extension of 10 months for THESIS project


Third Annual THESIS Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts, Coral Bay 19-26 November 2016


Linked Data and the Medieval Scholastic Tradition

International Workshop, Basel, August 17-19, 2016

See program: Linked Data and the Medieval Scholastic Tradition


THESIS project participated to the International Conference Habit in Medieval Philosophy, Paris, October 14-16, 2015 

See program: https://www.academia.edu/11959858/International_Conference_Habit_in_Medieval_Philosophy_Paris_October_14-16_2015


Les principia sur les commentaire des Sentences : entre exercice institutionnel et réalité intellectuelle

23, 24 mars 2015; IRHT : Centre Félix-Grat

 

Organized by: Monica Brinzei (ERC-IRHT, Paris)

William O. Duba (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)


The most substantial requirement to become a master of theology at the medieval university was to have lectured on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. This course included inaugural lectures -- principia -- at the beginning of each of the four books. Yet these principia remain largely unknown. The goal of this workshop is to establish the scholarly understanding of principia, and through it, to better grasp the organization of medieval theological teaching through case studies. By clarifying the circumstances and content of this obligatory step in the careers of the sententiarii, this workshop intends to achieve a picture of the key characteristics of this exercise, the structure and style of principia, the principal actors and authors, and the doctrinal problems discussed in these debates and sermons, as well the relationship between an author's principia and his Sentences  commentary.


 Principia ou les leçons inaugurales qui précèdent la lecture des Sentences à la Faculté de Théologie demeurent encore un témoin inconnu de cette pratique universitaire. Le but de cet workshop est de mieux comprendre l'organisation de l'enseignement théologique médiéval à travers des études de cas des principia. L'intérêt est d'éclairer cette épreuve obligatoire imposée aux sententiarii en investiguant quelles sont les caractéristiques de cet exercice, quel est la structure et le style desprincipia, qui sont les acteurs principaux de ces débats universitaires et qui sont les auteurs qui nous ont laissé des principia, quelles sont les problèmes doctrinales abordés dans ces débats, quel est le rapport entre les principia et le commentaire desSentences d'un même auteur. 


Contact: Monica BRINZEI, mbrinzei@gmail.com