This collected volume of leading specialists in this field offers not only a comprehensive understanding of the medieval concept of nature, but also instructive information for our environment crisis because of continuity and discontinuity between these two ages.

Chumaru Koyama, was Professor of Philosophy and President of Waseda University in Tokyo, and is now Rector at Hakuou University in Oyama (Japan). He published an Itinerary to a comparative philosophy of religion (Tokyo 1991).