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ALBERT THE GREAT. Questions Concerning Aristotle's On Animals. Translated by Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. The Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation, vol. 9. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. xxxiii + 574 pp. Cloth, $69.95 - By the summer of 1248, Albert the Great had been the Regent Master of Theology, holding the Dominican chair for foreigners at the University of Paris for three years. He was then sent by his Dominican superiors to Cologne to establish a new Studium for the order. This provided Albert with an opportunity to design a theology curriculum from the ground up. As his published works show, he included in his curriculum studies of a number of then newly available Aristotelian texts. Indeed, Albert's use of this Aristotelian material was as far-ranging as it was innovative. Not only did he provide lectures and disputations on Aristotle's psychology and ethics, as one might expect in a school of theology, but he also found a place for natural philosophy, even to the point of introducing his students to the details of zoological research. The text translated in this volume, a reportatio of a series of disputed questions derived from Aristotle's zoological treatises, supplies evidence of this. The Libri de Animalibus had been translated from the Arabic into Latin by Michael Scotus at Toledo sometime during the first quarter of the 13th century. Albert had clearly become acquainted with this text while at Paris and, by 1258, was expert enough to present these quaestiones in the Studium at Cologne.