Between the astral plane and scholasticism: a Parisian interview with the expert on virtutes occultae Nicolas Weill-Parot By Zdenko Vozar

https://www.academia.edu/129401400/Between_the_astral_plane_and_scholasticism_a_Parisian_interview_with_the_expert_on_virtutes_occultae_Nicolas_Weill_Parot?nav_from=1fdebfb9-6d1d-4f85-98ad-2aa6e18503aa Nicolas Weill-Parot is the perfect example of the very rare and distinguished scientists ceaselessly investigating the subject of astral images (talismans porting simple or sophisticated motives of the universe), the relation of medieval science to its limits and also undeterminable structures seen as virtutes occultae. He is a former student of École Normale Supérieure of Ulm street. He defended his thesis on “astral images” in 1998 at University Paris 10 (Nanterre).2 He then delivered his lectures during 1999–2011 at University Paris 8 (Saint-Denis) as maître de conférences and during 2011–2016 at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne as professeur. Since 2016, he has been a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris. He there continues in the prestigious French tradition of historians of science, giving Tuesday lectures after Danielle Jacquart (Histoire des sciences au Moyen Âge) (Beaujouan, 1992; Jacquart, 1998). Nicolas Weill-Parot is an author of art... ...