Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature

Irven Resnick and Kenneth Kitchell, who have long toiled on the Albertian corpus, provide a lively, accessible introduction to his life and thought. * Barbara Newman, London Review of Books *
Resnick and Kitchell have done heroic work in sorting out both the career of Albertus and the world he struggled to understand. -- Robert Irwin * Fortean Times *
St. Albert the Great's irrepressible interest in the natural world, and his encyclopaedic knowledge, is admirably charted in this new intellectual biography . . . Having translated both of Albert’s works on animals, Resnick and Kitchell were ideally placed as biographers, and their volume is both informative and readable. -- Andrew Davison * Church Times *
In this most recent compact and accessible work, Resnick and Kitchell continue their efforts on behalf of the patron saint of scientists . . . The two chapters that cover Albertus’ actual scientific work are enthralling and worth the price of the book. . . . It does not require technical knowledge or vocabulary, and the writing is clear and engaging. The physical book is an attractive artifact. The binding is sewn, and the visual presentation is aided by almost forty full color illustrations. The publisher is to be commended for this attention to detail. -- Michael Garrett * Reading Religion *
This study of the natural philosophy of Albert the Great is as illuminating as its subject, whom the fourteenth-century Dominican Henry of Herford described as "the brightest sun from among all of the philosophers of the whole of Christendom". Resnick and Kitchell have masterfully filled a significant lacuna in anglophone scholarship on Albertus Magnus. Highly recommended. * Franklin T. Harkins, Boston College *
Another one of those solid and valuable pieces of scholarship that we have come to expect from Resnick and Kitchell – this time a book that manages to be both an accessible introduction and a useful companion to their heroic translation of Albertus Magnus’ colossal On Animals. * Bruno Tremblay, St Jerome’s University, Ontario *
Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr’s Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature is a truly worthy tribute to the life and work of the Doctor universalis. One of the first of its kind in the Anglo-American research community, this book offers a reliable general introduction to Albertus Magnus and presents his view of the natural world to a wide audience. * Henryk Anzulewicz, Albertus Magnus Institut, Bonn *