Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Irven M Resnick & Kenneth F Kitchell Jr
Reaktion Books 2022
Hb, 224pp, £16.95, ISBN 9781789145137
The mediæval literary world was plagued with self-effacing authors. Rather than proudly write their own name on the title pages of their manuscripts, they ascribed what they had written to someone else, preferably someone famous. In this way the 13th-century German Dominican friar Albertus Magnus became the supposed author of a vast quantity of unmerited and almost
