"Remigius diffineth a soule in this manere: a soule is a bodiles substaunce reulinge a body."
— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Work Title
Date
1389
Metaphor
"Remigius diffineth a soule in this manere: a soule is a bodiles substaunce reulinge a body."
Metaphor in Context
[a] Remigius diffineth a soule in this manere: a soule is a bodiles substaunce reulinge a body. [b] The soule is noght istreight nothir isprad in lengthe nothir in brede in the body... but abidinge in the middel of the herte withoute spredinge of hitself geveth lif to alle the body. [c] The soule is [in] a maner spiritual and resonable substaunce that god made of noght for to geve lif and perfectioun to mannes body. [d] And thatte anima while he is in the body and geveth it life, mens while he hath mynde, animus while he hath wille, racio while demeth rightfulliche, spiritus sum spirat breeth, sensus dum senteth felith.
Categories
Provenance
Reading MacDonald, Paul S. History of the Concept of Mind: Speculations About Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. p. 246
Citation
Bartholomeus Anglicus. On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum. Ed. M. C. Seymour et. al. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
Date of Review
04/20/2007
