Dr Philipp Nothaft

History

Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2021

I am an historian of science, intellectual history, and cultural history who specializes in sources from medieval Latin Europe. My work covers a wide range of areas connected with the history of knowledge in pre-modern and early modern Europe, including the histories of individual disciplines or practices such as astronomy, chronology, cosmology, natural philosophy, geography, historiography, religion, astrology, and prognostication. Further interests of mine include book history, textual transmission, and the study of knowledge transfers, especially with regards to Jewish-Christian interactions and the Islamic influence on Latin Europe.

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Email: philipp.nothaft@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

ORCID

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Research Areas

History of Science

Intellectual History

Cultural History

Medieval History

Astronomy/astrology

Calendars/chronology

Selected Publications

Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers

(Leiden: Brill, 2023)

The Cistercian Hermann Zoest’s Treatise on Leavened and Unleavened Bread (De fermento et azimo): Oecumenism, Exegesis, and Science at the Council of Basel. Edited by C. Philipp E. Nothaft and Christopher D. Schabel

(Leuven: Peeters, 2022)

A Fourteenth-Century Chronologer and Critic of Astrology: Heinrich Selder’s Treatise on the Time of the Lord’s Annunciation, Nativity, and Passion

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)

Peter de Rivo: On Chronology and the Calendar. Edited and Introduced by Matthew S. Champion, Serena Masolini, and C. Philipp E. Nothaft

(Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020)

Robert Grosseteste’s Compotus. Edited and Translated by Alfred Lohr and C. Philipp E. Nothaft

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)