“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
“Resnick and Kitchells 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
"Resnick and Kitchell, who have long toiled on the Albertian corpus, provide a lively, accessible introduction to his life and thought."
— 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.”
— 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.”
— Church Times (UK)
“[A] compact and accessible work . . . if this is the culmination of Resnick and Kitchellʼs work on Albert, it is a worthy capstone. They have created a world of resources that should provide fodder for the next generation of scholarship. It is hoped that a book such as this, aimed toward the student, will whet the appetite of future scholars in the study of the great Albert.”
— Reading Religion