Gonzaga University is currently hosting 25 scholars from throughout the country for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers. As a result, a book exhibit tracing political philosophy in the Middle Ages will be available for the public, according to a press release.
The exhibition, “Thinking About Faith and Politics: Three Traditions of Political Philosophy in the Middle Ages,” will be available daily in the Cowles Rare Books Room at Gonzaga’s Foley Center Library from July 11 through Aug. 15. The materials on display chronicle the development of medieval political philosophy and to illustrate the fascinating history of preserving medieval political philosophy through subsequent publication. View the exhibition online: Researchguides.gonzaga.edu/NEH2014.
According to a press release, Gonzaga philosophy Professor Douglas Kries received a $154,548 grant from the NEH in collaboration with two other universities to present the Institute, titled “Medieval Political Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish and Christian.” The scholars are studying and discussing how to best teach undergraduate courses addressing all three of the religious traditions within which medieval political philosophy emerged: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian.
Kries, co-director of the Institute, said medieval political philosophy is especially important because it was when ancient political philosophy encountered the three revealed religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
