https://brill.com/view/journals/viv/aop/article-10.1163-15685349-12341370.xml
Based on the comme... more https://brill.com/view/journals/viv/aop/article-10.1163-15685349-12341370.xml Based on the comments of Giovanni Boccaccio and Giovanni Villani, a theory holds that Dante Alighieri may have studied philosophy and theology at Paris in 1309-1310. That same academic year, the Dominican bachelor of the Sentences at Paris, Giovanni Regina di Napoli (John of Naples), delivered a speech thanking a 'Benefactor'. This Benefactor, neither a Dominican nor a theologian, gave the sole benefit of honoring Giovanni, the convent of Saint-Jacques, and the Dominican Order with his presence, attending Giovanni's lectures on theology.
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, 2018
Medieval philosophers did not unequivocally support the Aristotelian doctrine of container-place,... more Medieval philosophers did not unequivocally support the Aristotelian doctrine of container-place, that is, that the place of a thing is the first immobile surface of what contains the thing. John Duns Scotus (d. 1308) famously developed a theory that tried to resolve the problems of container-place through an appeal to a notion of equivalence. Peter Auriol (d. 1322) took the radical step of reducing place to the category of position, understood with relation to the three-dimensional extension of the universe. Auriol called this "place according to metaphysical consideration" and contrasted it with "place according to physical consideration." This division evoked one in another thinker, Nicholas Bonet (fl. 1333), who in his Philosophia naturalis distinguished between mathematical and natural senses of place. Rather than being influenced by Auriol, Bonet developed Scotus' doctrine of equivalent place into a doctrine of mathematical place and time. To support his position, Bonet drew upon the Aristotelian notion of abstraction and selectively read Averroes as explicitly supporting his position.
A tree of consanguinity (arbor consanguinitatis) contained in a manuscript published on e-codices... more A tree of consanguinity (arbor consanguinitatis) contained in a manuscript published on e-codices (Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 28), served as the model for a new class of forgery. An analysis of the Bodmer leaf in the context of other arbores consanguinitatis shows how the leaf relates to tradition; an examination of the leaf's history and provenance reveals that the leaf was mutilated, probably in the mid-twentieth century. The forgery is proven to be such through a paleographical and content analysis of the script, and through an examination of the leaf's method of composition. A second forgery is examined, a fragment of Jerome's Epistle 53, fabricated from the first folio of another e-codices manuscript, Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek MsWettF 11. The forgeries and their circulation provides the opportunity for an assessment of the changing role of manuscript fragments and fakes in the twenty-first century.
William Duba and Christoph Flüeler
The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subj... more William Duba and Christoph Flüeler The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subject matter and a methodology of its own. This journal, Fragmentology, aims to serve that field, and, through its publications, document how fragment studies fit in the humanities.
In Atti del VII Convegni Internazionale su Francesco d'Appignano, a cura di Domenico Priori and F... more In Atti del VII Convegni Internazionale su Francesco d'Appignano, a cura di Domenico Priori and Fabio Zanin, Appignano del Tronto [2018], 103-132.
This paper uses Bert Roest's recent and provocative essay in Franciscan Studies 74 (2016) as a frame to talk about how the physics of Francesco d'Appignano (Francis of Marchia) became part of the work by the author known to posterity as John the Canon and to his contemporaries as Francesc Marbres. It also reports the discovery of two fragments of Francesco's Reportatio IIA and integrates them into the stemma codicum. Neither I nor Chris remember seeing proofs, so we hope the text is legible.
Himbert of Garda was a little-known Franciscan theologian who studied at Paris around 1320 and pr... more Himbert of Garda was a little-known Franciscan theologian who studied at Paris around 1320 and probably served as Francis of Meyronnes’ secretary. His commentary on the Sentences provides precious insights on the development of Franciscan thought at Paris, connecting Francis of Meyronnes’ refined presentations of doctrine with raw academic debates between bachelors and masters in the Faculty of Theology. An appendix presents Himbert’s discussion of intrinsic degrees in Book I d.36, and both redactions of his treatment of the formal distinction in the context of the divine attributes in Book I d.8, as well as parallel texts from Francis of Meyronnes. A second appendix provides a full question- and citation-list for Himbert’s commentary on the Sentences.
In a seminal article, Simo Knuuttila and Anja Inkeri Lehtinen drew attention to a “curious doctri... more In a seminal article, Simo Knuuttila and Anja Inkeri Lehtinen drew attention to a “curious doctrine” holding that contradictories can be true at the same temporal instant, and identified the major defenders of the doctrine as John Baconthorpe, Landolfo Caracciolo, and Hugh of Novocastro. Normann Kretzmann later asserted as fact the suggestion by Knuuttila and Inkeri Lehtinen that the doctrine comes from a misreading of a passage from Aristotle’s Physics. In fact, a study of the relevant texts reveals that Hugh of Novocastro first elaborated the doctrine by building on the Scotist doctrines of synchronic contingency and simultaneous causation. As these doctrines require at the same instant of time an order of priority and posterity between possibility and actuality, cause and effect, so, Hugh says, there must be prior and posterior different states of affairs. Landolfo Caracciolo made this doctrine notorious outside the Franciscan convent by using it in his principia debates, directly engaging the circle of Cardinal Iacopo Stefaneschi (Thomas Wylton, John of Jandun, and Annibaldo di Ceccano). John Baconthorpe, the first to (mis)cite the Physics passage, did not have any noticeable effect on the development of the doctrine.
A commentary on the footnotes to the "Change and Contradiction" presented in a special issue of Vivarium edited by Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques. I was not involved in administering the peer review process of this issue. The text as submitted can be published 18 July 2019. For the print version, see: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685349-12341329 or ask me for an offprint.
Someone complained recently that it was difficult to identify all of my publications that touched... more Someone complained recently that it was difficult to identify all of my publications that touched on a common theme, especially since many were scattered in collective volumes, and asked that I supply a list of relevant publications. I confess In introductions to editions and other unlikely places, I have brought up themes that are not immediately obvious. I've also observed that sites like ORCID or academia.edu are not particularly helpful either, especially if the publications cannot (yet) be openly distributed. For these reasons, I've taken the liberty of putting in table format all my writings that have either been published or that are in press, to what research in what other publications it connects, what persons are discussed, and a brief summary (not an abstract) of what I can remember about it at the moment.
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, 2017
William Duba and Chris Schabel, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 84:1 (2017), 14... more William Duba and Chris Schabel, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 84:1 (2017), 143-179
In his sermo finalis on the Sentences, Remigio de’ Girolami OP introduced the next bachelor to read the Sentences, Bernard of Auvergne. This detail allows us to date Remigio’s lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences at Paris to the year 1297-98 and to confirm that he read the four books in the order I-IV-II-III. It also indicates that, by that time, bachelors at Paris read the Sentences over the course of a single academic year, thereby falsifying the myth that, until around 1318, their lectures took two years. Thus Peter Auriol OFM read the Sentences in the order I-IV-II-III at Paris in the academic year 1317-18, not in 1316-18, and John Duns Scotus lectured in the sequence I-IV-II-III in 1302-03, stopping midway through book III when he refused to adhere to the king of France’s appeal against Boniface VIII. These findings raise the question whether a two-year lecture cycle was ever the rule. When compared against what we know about Sentences lectures, even the case for Thomas Aquinas teaching the Sentences across two years is, in its current state, unconvincing.
in Teologien i Historien – Historien i Teologien. Festskrift til Professor Lauge O. Nielsen, C. S... more in Teologien i Historien – Historien i Teologien. Festskrift til Professor Lauge O. Nielsen, C. S. Jensen og C. Gottlieb (red.), København 2016
in Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theologi... more in Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Issues, ed. A. Speer, F. Retucci, T. Jeschke and G. Guldentops, Leuven: Peeters (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales. Bibliotheca 9), 2014, 119-169.
Discusses the philological challenges presented by fourteenth-century philosophical texts, especially those derived from university reportationes, with particular concern for authorial revision and scribal contamination. It presents the challenges faced and solutions adopted in the recently completed critical edition of Francis of Marchia's commentary on book II of the Sentences.
Peter Ceffons, O.C., in his Commentary on the Sentences, addresses the topic of judicial astronom... more Peter Ceffons, O.C., in his Commentary on the Sentences, addresses the topic of judicial astronomy; engaging Thomas Bradwardine, Peter carves out a space for celestial influences. Latin Edition with Danish Introduction. W. Owen Duba and C. David Schabel
Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014), 183-194.
This notice answers two long-running questi... more Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014), 183-194. This notice answers two long-running questions of authorship. The first part of the notice addresses the famous question “Utrum Aristoteles sit salvatus” that survives in the manuscript Città del Vaticano, BAV, Cod. Vat. lat. 1012, a miscellany of primarily Franciscan texts. On the basis of contextual, textual and thematic parallels, the authorship of the question should be ascribed to Hugh of Neufchâteau, OFM (fl. 1310s). The second part considers the case of the Evidentiae contra Durandum, whose author, known as Durandellus, Joseph Koch identified with a certain Nicolaus Medensis in 1927. A re-examination of Koch’s reasoning makes this attribution doubtful, and the witness of the original Reportatio of William of Brienne, OFM, shows that the Dominican theologian Durand of Aurillac is more likely the author of the Evidentiae.
"Fides Virtus". The Virtue of Faith in the Context of the Theological Virtues from the 12th to th... more "Fides Virtus". The Virtue of Faith in the Context of the Theological Virtues from the 12th to the Early 16th Century, eds. Riccardo Quinto, Silvana Vecchio, and Caterina Tarlazzi, Münster: Aschendorff (Archa Verbi. Subsidia 12), 2014, 315-333.
“In principio erat Verbum”. Philosophy and Theology in the Commentaries on the Gospel of John (II... more “In principio erat Verbum”. Philosophy and Theology in the Commentaries on the Gospel of John (II-XIV centuries), ed. Fabrizio Amerini, Münster: Aschendorff (Archa Verbi. Subsidia 11), 2014, 229-246.
Pierre Jean Olivi - Philosophe et Théologien, eds. Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Catherine König-Pralong a... more Pierre Jean Olivi - Philosophe et Théologien, eds. Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Catherine König-Pralong and Olivier Ribordy, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 139-150.
Richard Fitzralph: His Life, Times and Thought, ed. M. Dunne and S. Nolan O.Carm., Dublin: Four C... more Richard Fitzralph: His Life, Times and Thought, ed. M. Dunne and S. Nolan O.Carm., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013, 103-127.
Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts, eds.... more Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts, eds. K. Emery, Jr., W. J. Courtenay and S.M. Metzger, Turnhout: Brepols, 2012, 277-302.
Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, Heide... more Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, 364-366
https://brill.com/view/journals/viv/aop/article-10.1163-15685349-12341370.xml
Based on the comme... more https://brill.com/view/journals/viv/aop/article-10.1163-15685349-12341370.xml Based on the comments of Giovanni Boccaccio and Giovanni Villani, a theory holds that Dante Alighieri may have studied philosophy and theology at Paris in 1309-1310. That same academic year, the Dominican bachelor of the Sentences at Paris, Giovanni Regina di Napoli (John of Naples), delivered a speech thanking a 'Benefactor'. This Benefactor, neither a Dominican nor a theologian, gave the sole benefit of honoring Giovanni, the convent of Saint-Jacques, and the Dominican Order with his presence, attending Giovanni's lectures on theology.
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, 2018
Medieval philosophers did not unequivocally support the Aristotelian doctrine of container-place,... more Medieval philosophers did not unequivocally support the Aristotelian doctrine of container-place, that is, that the place of a thing is the first immobile surface of what contains the thing. John Duns Scotus (d. 1308) famously developed a theory that tried to resolve the problems of container-place through an appeal to a notion of equivalence. Peter Auriol (d. 1322) took the radical step of reducing place to the category of position, understood with relation to the three-dimensional extension of the universe. Auriol called this "place according to metaphysical consideration" and contrasted it with "place according to physical consideration." This division evoked one in another thinker, Nicholas Bonet (fl. 1333), who in his Philosophia naturalis distinguished between mathematical and natural senses of place. Rather than being influenced by Auriol, Bonet developed Scotus' doctrine of equivalent place into a doctrine of mathematical place and time. To support his position, Bonet drew upon the Aristotelian notion of abstraction and selectively read Averroes as explicitly supporting his position.
A tree of consanguinity (arbor consanguinitatis) contained in a manuscript published on e-codices... more A tree of consanguinity (arbor consanguinitatis) contained in a manuscript published on e-codices (Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 28), served as the model for a new class of forgery. An analysis of the Bodmer leaf in the context of other arbores consanguinitatis shows how the leaf relates to tradition; an examination of the leaf's history and provenance reveals that the leaf was mutilated, probably in the mid-twentieth century. The forgery is proven to be such through a paleographical and content analysis of the script, and through an examination of the leaf's method of composition. A second forgery is examined, a fragment of Jerome's Epistle 53, fabricated from the first folio of another e-codices manuscript, Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek MsWettF 11. The forgeries and their circulation provides the opportunity for an assessment of the changing role of manuscript fragments and fakes in the twenty-first century.
William Duba and Christoph Flüeler
The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subj... more William Duba and Christoph Flüeler The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subject matter and a methodology of its own. This journal, Fragmentology, aims to serve that field, and, through its publications, document how fragment studies fit in the humanities.
In Atti del VII Convegni Internazionale su Francesco d'Appignano, a cura di Domenico Priori and F... more In Atti del VII Convegni Internazionale su Francesco d'Appignano, a cura di Domenico Priori and Fabio Zanin, Appignano del Tronto [2018], 103-132.
This paper uses Bert Roest's recent and provocative essay in Franciscan Studies 74 (2016) as a frame to talk about how the physics of Francesco d'Appignano (Francis of Marchia) became part of the work by the author known to posterity as John the Canon and to his contemporaries as Francesc Marbres. It also reports the discovery of two fragments of Francesco's Reportatio IIA and integrates them into the stemma codicum. Neither I nor Chris remember seeing proofs, so we hope the text is legible.
Himbert of Garda was a little-known Franciscan theologian who studied at Paris around 1320 and pr... more Himbert of Garda was a little-known Franciscan theologian who studied at Paris around 1320 and probably served as Francis of Meyronnes’ secretary. His commentary on the Sentences provides precious insights on the development of Franciscan thought at Paris, connecting Francis of Meyronnes’ refined presentations of doctrine with raw academic debates between bachelors and masters in the Faculty of Theology. An appendix presents Himbert’s discussion of intrinsic degrees in Book I d.36, and both redactions of his treatment of the formal distinction in the context of the divine attributes in Book I d.8, as well as parallel texts from Francis of Meyronnes. A second appendix provides a full question- and citation-list for Himbert’s commentary on the Sentences.
In a seminal article, Simo Knuuttila and Anja Inkeri Lehtinen drew attention to a “curious doctri... more In a seminal article, Simo Knuuttila and Anja Inkeri Lehtinen drew attention to a “curious doctrine” holding that contradictories can be true at the same temporal instant, and identified the major defenders of the doctrine as John Baconthorpe, Landolfo Caracciolo, and Hugh of Novocastro. Normann Kretzmann later asserted as fact the suggestion by Knuuttila and Inkeri Lehtinen that the doctrine comes from a misreading of a passage from Aristotle’s Physics. In fact, a study of the relevant texts reveals that Hugh of Novocastro first elaborated the doctrine by building on the Scotist doctrines of synchronic contingency and simultaneous causation. As these doctrines require at the same instant of time an order of priority and posterity between possibility and actuality, cause and effect, so, Hugh says, there must be prior and posterior different states of affairs. Landolfo Caracciolo made this doctrine notorious outside the Franciscan convent by using it in his principia debates, directly engaging the circle of Cardinal Iacopo Stefaneschi (Thomas Wylton, John of Jandun, and Annibaldo di Ceccano). John Baconthorpe, the first to (mis)cite the Physics passage, did not have any noticeable effect on the development of the doctrine.
A commentary on the footnotes to the "Change and Contradiction" presented in a special issue of Vivarium edited by Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques. I was not involved in administering the peer review process of this issue. The text as submitted can be published 18 July 2019. For the print version, see: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685349-12341329 or ask me for an offprint.
Someone complained recently that it was difficult to identify all of my publications that touched... more Someone complained recently that it was difficult to identify all of my publications that touched on a common theme, especially since many were scattered in collective volumes, and asked that I supply a list of relevant publications. I confess In introductions to editions and other unlikely places, I have brought up themes that are not immediately obvious. I've also observed that sites like ORCID or academia.edu are not particularly helpful either, especially if the publications cannot (yet) be openly distributed. For these reasons, I've taken the liberty of putting in table format all my writings that have either been published or that are in press, to what research in what other publications it connects, what persons are discussed, and a brief summary (not an abstract) of what I can remember about it at the moment.
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, 2017
William Duba and Chris Schabel, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 84:1 (2017), 14... more William Duba and Chris Schabel, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 84:1 (2017), 143-179
In his sermo finalis on the Sentences, Remigio de’ Girolami OP introduced the next bachelor to read the Sentences, Bernard of Auvergne. This detail allows us to date Remigio’s lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences at Paris to the year 1297-98 and to confirm that he read the four books in the order I-IV-II-III. It also indicates that, by that time, bachelors at Paris read the Sentences over the course of a single academic year, thereby falsifying the myth that, until around 1318, their lectures took two years. Thus Peter Auriol OFM read the Sentences in the order I-IV-II-III at Paris in the academic year 1317-18, not in 1316-18, and John Duns Scotus lectured in the sequence I-IV-II-III in 1302-03, stopping midway through book III when he refused to adhere to the king of France’s appeal against Boniface VIII. These findings raise the question whether a two-year lecture cycle was ever the rule. When compared against what we know about Sentences lectures, even the case for Thomas Aquinas teaching the Sentences across two years is, in its current state, unconvincing.
in Teologien i Historien – Historien i Teologien. Festskrift til Professor Lauge O. Nielsen, C. S... more in Teologien i Historien – Historien i Teologien. Festskrift til Professor Lauge O. Nielsen, C. S. Jensen og C. Gottlieb (red.), København 2016
in Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theologi... more in Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Issues, ed. A. Speer, F. Retucci, T. Jeschke and G. Guldentops, Leuven: Peeters (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales. Bibliotheca 9), 2014, 119-169.
Discusses the philological challenges presented by fourteenth-century philosophical texts, especially those derived from university reportationes, with particular concern for authorial revision and scribal contamination. It presents the challenges faced and solutions adopted in the recently completed critical edition of Francis of Marchia's commentary on book II of the Sentences.
Peter Ceffons, O.C., in his Commentary on the Sentences, addresses the topic of judicial astronom... more Peter Ceffons, O.C., in his Commentary on the Sentences, addresses the topic of judicial astronomy; engaging Thomas Bradwardine, Peter carves out a space for celestial influences. Latin Edition with Danish Introduction. W. Owen Duba and C. David Schabel
Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014), 183-194.
This notice answers two long-running questi... more Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014), 183-194. This notice answers two long-running questions of authorship. The first part of the notice addresses the famous question “Utrum Aristoteles sit salvatus” that survives in the manuscript Città del Vaticano, BAV, Cod. Vat. lat. 1012, a miscellany of primarily Franciscan texts. On the basis of contextual, textual and thematic parallels, the authorship of the question should be ascribed to Hugh of Neufchâteau, OFM (fl. 1310s). The second part considers the case of the Evidentiae contra Durandum, whose author, known as Durandellus, Joseph Koch identified with a certain Nicolaus Medensis in 1927. A re-examination of Koch’s reasoning makes this attribution doubtful, and the witness of the original Reportatio of William of Brienne, OFM, shows that the Dominican theologian Durand of Aurillac is more likely the author of the Evidentiae.
"Fides Virtus". The Virtue of Faith in the Context of the Theological Virtues from the 12th to th... more "Fides Virtus". The Virtue of Faith in the Context of the Theological Virtues from the 12th to the Early 16th Century, eds. Riccardo Quinto, Silvana Vecchio, and Caterina Tarlazzi, Münster: Aschendorff (Archa Verbi. Subsidia 12), 2014, 315-333.
“In principio erat Verbum”. Philosophy and Theology in the Commentaries on the Gospel of John (II... more “In principio erat Verbum”. Philosophy and Theology in the Commentaries on the Gospel of John (II-XIV centuries), ed. Fabrizio Amerini, Münster: Aschendorff (Archa Verbi. Subsidia 11), 2014, 229-246.
Pierre Jean Olivi - Philosophe et Théologien, eds. Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Catherine König-Pralong a... more Pierre Jean Olivi - Philosophe et Théologien, eds. Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Catherine König-Pralong and Olivier Ribordy, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 139-150.
Richard Fitzralph: His Life, Times and Thought, ed. M. Dunne and S. Nolan O.Carm., Dublin: Four C... more Richard Fitzralph: His Life, Times and Thought, ed. M. Dunne and S. Nolan O.Carm., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013, 103-127.
Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts, eds.... more Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts, eds. K. Emery, Jr., W. J. Courtenay and S.M. Metzger, Turnhout: Brepols, 2012, 277-302.
Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, Heide... more Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, 364-366
Textes réunis par Tiziana Suarez-Nani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.
Qu’est-ce que la matière?... more Textes réunis par Tiziana Suarez-Nani et Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité. Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées, à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
A unique glimpse into the classroom at a critical period in the history of western thought. A rar... more A unique glimpse into the classroom at a critical period in the history of western thought. A rare survival provides unmatched access to the medieval classroom. In the academic year 1330-31, the Franciscan theologian, William of Brienne, lectured on Peter Lombard's Sentences and disputed with the other theologians at the University of Paris. The original, official notes of these lectures and disputes survives in a manuscript codex at the National Library of the Czech Republic, and they constitute the oldest known original record of an entire university course. An analysis of this manuscript reconstructs the daily reality of the University of Paris in the fourteenth century, delineating the pace and organization of instruction within the school and the debates between the schools. The transcription made during William's lectures and the later modifications and additions reveal how the major vehicle for Scholastic thought, the written Sentences commentary, relates to fourteenth-century teaching. As a teacher and a scholar, William of Brienne was a dedicated follower of the philosophy and theology of John Duns Scotus (+1308). He constructed Scotist doctrine for his students and defended it from his peers. This book shows concretely how scholastic thinkers made, communicated, and debated ideas at the medieval universities. Appendices document the entire process with critical editions of William's academic debates (principia), his promotion speech, and a selection of his lectures and sources.
For more than half a century, William J. Courtenay has been opening up new avenues in the explora... more For more than half a century, William J. Courtenay has been opening up new avenues in the exploration of later-medieval intellectual and university history. He has also trained several generations of scholars who are themselves active researchers, and some of his students have had students of their own. The present volume collects thirteen contributions authored by Courtenay's students and "grand-students". From early thirteenth-century manuscripts to fourteenth-century atomism and the eternity of the world; from the theology of the resurrection to that of the incarnation; from Paris to Oxford and Regensburg, the studies and the critical editions of texts gathered here are eloquent witness to the range of William J. Courtenay's influence in medieval studies.
Edited by E.P. Bos, Leiden University, in collaboration with H.A.G. Braakhuis, W. Duba, C.H. Knee... more Edited by E.P. Bos, Leiden University, in collaboration with H.A.G. Braakhuis, W. Duba, C.H. Kneepkens and C. Schabel. In 1962–1967 Professor L.M. de Rijk published his Logica Modernorum – A Contribution to the History of Early Terminist Logic. The first part (1962) has the title: On the Twelfth Century Theories of Fallacy. The second part (two volumes, 1967) has as title: The Origin and the Early Development of the Theory of Supposition. De Rijk’s Logica Modernorum provides the basis for the modern study of medieval theories of supposition. Now, nearly 50 years later, scholars have made great progress in the study of the properties of terms. De Rijk’s study was primarily about the early development of terminist logic, i.e. during the 12th and 13th centuries. Scholars have also investigated later developments well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Not only logical texts, but also texts on grammar have been published. Many of the scholars who have contributed to this development, present papers in this volume. Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Jenny Ashworth, Allan Bäck, Bert Bos, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Laurent Cesalli, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Sten Ebbesen, Alessandro Conti, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Onno Kneepkens, Costantino Marmo, Dafne Mure, Claude Panaccio, Ernesto Perini Santos, Joel Lonfat, Angel d’Ors, Göran Sundholm and Luisa Valente.
ed. by William Duba and Christopher Schabel
Famous for his role as Minister General of the Franci... more ed. by William Duba and Christopher Schabel Famous for his role as Minister General of the Franciscan Order after the flight of Michael of Cesena and company, Gerald Odonis (ca. 1285-1348) has in recent years attracted attention for his scholarly work. At an increasing pace, studies of specific areas of Odonis' thought reveal another side to the man often portrayed as Pope John XXII's creature: a philosopher and theologian who held unique, often controversial positions and defended them with zeal and integrity, whose impact extended beyond the religious and chronological confines of medieval Christendom. Building on the recent scholarship of Bonnie Kent, Christian Trottmann, and especially L.M. de Rijk, this volume gathers together studies by other specialists on Odonis, covering his ideas in economics, logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, theology, and politics in works written over the entire span of his career. Contributors are Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Sander W. de Boer, Stephen F. Brown, Giovanni Ceccarelli, William Duba, Roberto Lambertini, Sylvain Piron, Camarin Porter, Chris Schabel, and Joke Spruyt.
eds. William Duba and Chris Schabel
This volume gathers together 277 letters of Pope Honorius II... more eds. William Duba and Chris Schabel
This volume gathers together 277 letters of Pope Honorius III (1216-1227) concerning Frankish Greece and Constantinople. These letters constitute an indispensable source for the early history of the territories conquered during and just after the Fourth Crusade of 1204, for which almost no local archival material survives. The Latin texts of many of the letters are published here for the first time, and almost all the letters have been reedited from the manuscripts, primarily the papal registers in the Vatican Archives. In addition, the volume makes the letters available to non-specialists through exhaustive English summaries of all the letters and complete translations of the most significant ones. A lengthy historical introduction uses these letters to portray the dynamic world of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, the Kingdom of Thessaloniki, and the other states that replaced Byzantium, as the precarious condition of the Latin states compelled the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome to temper their ambitions of transcultural religious unity with pragmatic measures. It explores how this mixture of cultural idealism, practical necessity, and divergent class structures manifested themselves in Honorius' policy towards the lower Greek clergy and Greek and Latin religious orders. Maps, tables, indices, and a guide to papal letters make the volume a useful tool for future studies of this fascinating and controversial phase in the history of Greece and the papacy.
The Cartulary of Vauluisant: A Critical Edition, 1994
MA thesis from 1994, consisting of a critical edition of the Cartulary of Vauluisant, largely con... more MA thesis from 1994, consisting of a critical edition of the Cartulary of Vauluisant, largely contained in MS Paris, BnF latin 9901, and surviving charters contemporary to the cartulary, preserved in the Archives nationales and the Archives Départementales de l'Yonne (Auxerre) et de Troyes. An historical study and a history of the codex provide an introduction.
During the course of the research, I was made aware of the existence of a fragment from the Cartulary in Archives nationales, AB XIX 1734. Two years later, I was able to consult the fragment. The 1996 revision incorporates those findings (#415-420], and provides non-standard thesis formatting (single spacing instead of double spacing) to reduce the size of the document.
In 2023, I found and scanned the images used for the figures. Those from the Cartulary I replaced with images taken from the retro-digitization of the microfilm of latin 9901.
The Home Page dedicated to Petrus Philargis, Peter of Candia, O.F.M., Alexander V, with a bibliog... more The Home Page dedicated to Petrus Philargis, Peter of Candia, O.F.M., Alexander V, with a bibliography and editions of his Sentences Commentary.
Edition from the sole MS (Praha, NKCR, IV.E.6) of Peter Auriol's rendition of Rhetorica ad Herenn... more Edition from the sole MS (Praha, NKCR, IV.E.6) of Peter Auriol's rendition of Rhetorica ad Herennium IV:19-46 for application to medieval sermons. Hosted at the Peter Auriol Homepage.
Principia on the Sentences of Peter Lombard were both an academic event and a literary genre. Ori... more Principia on the Sentences of Peter Lombard were both an academic event and a literary genre. Originally a sermon at the beginning of a bachelor of theology's lectures on each of the four books of the Sentences, by the fourteenth century they grew to include a disputation with other bachelors. This workshop brings together specialists to discuss moments in the development of principia sermons and disputations in the medieval universities.
A quick-and-dirty English translation of Scotus' doctrine of Place from Ordinatio II, d. 2, pars ... more A quick-and-dirty English translation of Scotus' doctrine of Place from Ordinatio II, d. 2, pars 2, q. 1-2. It looks like I pulled it off the Vivès-Wadding edition instead of the critical edition, but it seems to work fairly well, considering.
A translation for a seminar I taught in Spring 2016. Nicholas Bonetus provides a comprehensive do... more A translation for a seminar I taught in Spring 2016. Nicholas Bonetus provides a comprehensive doctrine of place that distinguishes between physical place (container-place) and mathematical place (three-dimensional extension as an abstraction).
Translation of Questions on the Physics IV, q. 1, a. 1 and q. 5, a. 2 prepared for a seminar on M... more Translation of Questions on the Physics IV, q. 1, a. 1 and q. 5, a. 2 prepared for a seminar on Medieval Theories of Place, Space and TIme, Radboud University Nijmegen, Spring 2016. Translation based on the transcription by C. D. Schabel. See now C.D. Schabel, "Projectile Motion in a Vacuum According to Francesc Marbres, Francis of Marcia, Gerald Odonis, and Nicholas Bonet", Early Science and Medicine 22 (2017)
Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing sch... more Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.
A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-... more A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.
A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-... more A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.
Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing sch... more Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments.
A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-... more A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments Fragmentology is an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles and reviews concerning medieval manuscript fragments. Fragmentology welcomes submissions, both articles and research notes, on any aspect pertaining to Latin and Greek manuscript fragments in the Middle Ages. Founded in 2018 as part of Fragmentarium, an international research project at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and the Zeno-Karl-Schindler Foundation, Fragmentology is published by the University of Fribourg and controlled by the Editorial Board in service to the scholarly community. Authors of articles, research notes, and reviews published in Fragmentology retain copyright over their works and have agreed to publish them in open access under a Creative Commons Attribution license; images may be subject to other licenses. Submissions are free, and Fragmentology does not require payment or membership from authors or institutions.
Volume 2 Fragmentology is an online, open-access journal dedicated to the study of manuscript fra... more Volume 2 Fragmentology is an online, open-access journal dedicated to the study of manuscript fragments, with a focus on the latin script tradition. The reference version is kept at: http://fragmentology.ms
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité. Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées, à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
William Duba, Digital Fragmentology: Promises and Challenges (Hybrid)
The study of manuscript fragments has a history as old as the study of manuscript codices, and pr... more The study of manuscript fragments has a history as old as the study of manuscript codices, and previous generations of scholars have been content to lump fragments together into the subject-matter of codicology. On this reading, the manuscript leaves that we find in the bindings of books, the illuminated initials pasted onto pages, the leaves from broken books for sale on the internet, all represent imperfect manuscript codices books, and, as such, can be investigated, although at greater expense of time and for less reward. Digital technologies and practices in the digital humanities have vastly changed the landscape, enabling approaches to fragmentary material to achieve new and exciting results. In particular, imaging technologies permit access to unreadable texts and the rapid reconstruction of pages, online databases facilitate the rapid location of fragments and their identification, and the networking effects of interoperability and virtual communities allow for the reconstruction of books, libraries and literary cultures, and the rapid dissemination of results. The sum total of these developments is the birth of a discipline, Fragmentology, that moves beyond just codicology to include diplomatics, early print, and the full range of historical sciences.
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Based on the comments of Giovanni Boccaccio and Giovanni Villani, a theory holds that Dante Alighieri may have studied philosophy and theology at Paris in 1309-1310. That same academic year, the Dominican bachelor of the Sentences at Paris, Giovanni Regina di Napoli (John of Naples), delivered a speech thanking a 'Benefactor'. This Benefactor, neither a Dominican nor a theologian, gave the sole benefit of honoring Giovanni, the convent of Saint-Jacques, and the Dominican Order with his presence, attending Giovanni's lectures on theology.
The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subject matter and a methodology of its own. This journal, Fragmentology, aims to serve that field, and, through its publications, document how fragment studies fit in the humanities.
This paper uses Bert Roest's recent and provocative essay in Franciscan Studies 74 (2016) as a frame to talk about how the physics of Francesco d'Appignano (Francis of Marchia) became part of the work by the author known to posterity as John the Canon and to his contemporaries as Francesc Marbres. It also reports the discovery of two fragments of Francesco's Reportatio IIA and integrates them into the stemma codicum. Neither I nor Chris remember seeing proofs, so we hope the text is legible.
Pre-publication version. Full version available at http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.BPM.1.102682
and actuality, cause and effect, so, Hugh says, there must be prior and posterior different states of affairs. Landolfo Caracciolo made this doctrine notorious outside the Franciscan convent by using it in his principia debates, directly engaging the circle of Cardinal Iacopo Stefaneschi (Thomas Wylton, John of Jandun, and Annibaldo di
Ceccano). John Baconthorpe, the first to (mis)cite the Physics passage, did not have any noticeable effect on the development of the doctrine.
A commentary on the footnotes to the "Change and Contradiction" presented in a special issue of Vivarium edited by Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques. I was not involved in administering the peer review process of this issue. The text as submitted can be published 18 July 2019. For the print version, see: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685349-12341329 or ask me for an offprint.
In his sermo finalis on the Sentences, Remigio de’ Girolami OP introduced the next bachelor to read the Sentences, Bernard of Auvergne. This detail allows us to date Remigio’s lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences at Paris to the year 1297-98 and to confirm that he read the four books in the order I-IV-II-III. It also indicates that, by that time, bachelors at Paris read the Sentences over the course of a single academic year, thereby falsifying the myth that, until around 1318, their lectures took two years. Thus Peter Auriol OFM read the Sentences in the order I-IV-II-III at Paris in the academic year 1317-18, not in 1316-18, and John Duns Scotus lectured in the sequence I-IV-II-III in 1302-03, stopping midway through book III when he refused to adhere to the king of France’s appeal against Boniface VIII. These findings raise the question whether a two-year lecture cycle was ever the rule. When compared against what we know about Sentences lectures, even the case for Thomas Aquinas teaching the Sentences across two years is, in its current state, unconvincing.
(The article can be had from http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3212078&journal_code=RTPM or an offprint may be requested from the author)
Discusses the philological challenges presented by fourteenth-century philosophical texts, especially those derived from university reportationes, with particular concern for authorial revision and scribal contamination. It presents the challenges faced and solutions adopted in the recently completed critical edition of Francis of Marchia's commentary on book II of the Sentences.
W. Owen Duba and C. David Schabel
This notice answers two long-running questions of authorship. The first part of the notice addresses the famous question “Utrum Aristoteles sit salvatus” that survives in the manuscript Città del Vaticano, BAV, Cod. Vat. lat. 1012, a miscellany of primarily Franciscan texts. On the basis of contextual, textual and thematic parallels, the authorship of the question should be ascribed to Hugh of Neufchâteau, OFM (fl. 1310s). The second part considers the case of the Evidentiae contra Durandum, whose author, known as Durandellus, Joseph Koch identified with a certain Nicolaus Medensis in 1927. A re-examination of Koch’s reasoning makes this attribution doubtful, and the witness of the original Reportatio of William of Brienne, OFM, shows that the Dominican theologian Durand of Aurillac is more likely the author of the Evidentiae.
Based on the comments of Giovanni Boccaccio and Giovanni Villani, a theory holds that Dante Alighieri may have studied philosophy and theology at Paris in 1309-1310. That same academic year, the Dominican bachelor of the Sentences at Paris, Giovanni Regina di Napoli (John of Naples), delivered a speech thanking a 'Benefactor'. This Benefactor, neither a Dominican nor a theologian, gave the sole benefit of honoring Giovanni, the convent of Saint-Jacques, and the Dominican Order with his presence, attending Giovanni's lectures on theology.
The name ‘Fragmentology’ implies a field of study, with a subject matter and a methodology of its own. This journal, Fragmentology, aims to serve that field, and, through its publications, document how fragment studies fit in the humanities.
This paper uses Bert Roest's recent and provocative essay in Franciscan Studies 74 (2016) as a frame to talk about how the physics of Francesco d'Appignano (Francis of Marchia) became part of the work by the author known to posterity as John the Canon and to his contemporaries as Francesc Marbres. It also reports the discovery of two fragments of Francesco's Reportatio IIA and integrates them into the stemma codicum. Neither I nor Chris remember seeing proofs, so we hope the text is legible.
Pre-publication version. Full version available at http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.BPM.1.102682
and actuality, cause and effect, so, Hugh says, there must be prior and posterior different states of affairs. Landolfo Caracciolo made this doctrine notorious outside the Franciscan convent by using it in his principia debates, directly engaging the circle of Cardinal Iacopo Stefaneschi (Thomas Wylton, John of Jandun, and Annibaldo di
Ceccano). John Baconthorpe, the first to (mis)cite the Physics passage, did not have any noticeable effect on the development of the doctrine.
A commentary on the footnotes to the "Change and Contradiction" presented in a special issue of Vivarium edited by Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques. I was not involved in administering the peer review process of this issue. The text as submitted can be published 18 July 2019. For the print version, see: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685349-12341329 or ask me for an offprint.
In his sermo finalis on the Sentences, Remigio de’ Girolami OP introduced the next bachelor to read the Sentences, Bernard of Auvergne. This detail allows us to date Remigio’s lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences at Paris to the year 1297-98 and to confirm that he read the four books in the order I-IV-II-III. It also indicates that, by that time, bachelors at Paris read the Sentences over the course of a single academic year, thereby falsifying the myth that, until around 1318, their lectures took two years. Thus Peter Auriol OFM read the Sentences in the order I-IV-II-III at Paris in the academic year 1317-18, not in 1316-18, and John Duns Scotus lectured in the sequence I-IV-II-III in 1302-03, stopping midway through book III when he refused to adhere to the king of France’s appeal against Boniface VIII. These findings raise the question whether a two-year lecture cycle was ever the rule. When compared against what we know about Sentences lectures, even the case for Thomas Aquinas teaching the Sentences across two years is, in its current state, unconvincing.
(The article can be had from http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3212078&journal_code=RTPM or an offprint may be requested from the author)
Discusses the philological challenges presented by fourteenth-century philosophical texts, especially those derived from university reportationes, with particular concern for authorial revision and scribal contamination. It presents the challenges faced and solutions adopted in the recently completed critical edition of Francis of Marchia's commentary on book II of the Sentences.
W. Owen Duba and C. David Schabel
This notice answers two long-running questions of authorship. The first part of the notice addresses the famous question “Utrum Aristoteles sit salvatus” that survives in the manuscript Città del Vaticano, BAV, Cod. Vat. lat. 1012, a miscellany of primarily Franciscan texts. On the basis of contextual, textual and thematic parallels, the authorship of the question should be ascribed to Hugh of Neufchâteau, OFM (fl. 1310s). The second part considers the case of the Evidentiae contra Durandum, whose author, known as Durandellus, Joseph Koch identified with a certain Nicolaus Medensis in 1927. A re-examination of Koch’s reasoning makes this attribution doubtful, and the witness of the original Reportatio of William of Brienne, OFM, shows that the Dominican theologian Durand of Aurillac is more likely the author of the Evidentiae.
Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire
de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes
et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité.
Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration
de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait
devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la
métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions
les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude
des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe
et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées,
à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts
ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions
permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.
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In 1962–1967 Professor L.M. de Rijk published his Logica Modernorum – A Contribution to the History of Early Terminist Logic. The first part (1962) has the title: On the Twelfth Century Theories of Fallacy. The second part (two volumes, 1967) has as title: The Origin and the Early Development of the Theory of Supposition. De Rijk’s Logica Modernorum provides the basis for the modern study of medieval theories of supposition.
Now, nearly 50 years later, scholars have made great progress in the study of the properties of terms. De Rijk’s study was primarily about the early development of terminist logic, i.e. during the 12th and 13th centuries. Scholars have also investigated later developments well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Not only logical texts, but also texts on grammar have been published. Many of the scholars who have contributed to this development, present papers in this volume.
Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Jenny Ashworth, Allan Bäck, Bert Bos, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Laurent Cesalli, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Sten Ebbesen, Alessandro Conti, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Onno Kneepkens, Costantino Marmo, Dafne Mure, Claude Panaccio, Ernesto Perini Santos, Joel Lonfat, Angel d’Ors, Göran Sundholm and Luisa Valente.
Famous for his role as Minister General of the Franciscan Order after the flight of Michael of Cesena and company, Gerald Odonis (ca. 1285-1348) has in recent years attracted attention for his scholarly work. At an increasing pace, studies of specific areas of Odonis' thought reveal another side to the man often portrayed as Pope John XXII's creature: a philosopher and theologian who held unique, often controversial positions and defended them with zeal and integrity, whose impact extended beyond the religious and chronological confines of medieval Christendom. Building on the recent scholarship of Bonnie Kent, Christian Trottmann, and especially L.M. de Rijk, this volume gathers together studies by other specialists on Odonis, covering his ideas in economics, logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, theology, and politics in works written over the entire span of his career. Contributors are Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Sander W. de Boer, Stephen F. Brown, Giovanni Ceccarelli, William Duba, Roberto Lambertini, Sylvain Piron, Camarin Porter, Chris Schabel, and Joke Spruyt.
This volume gathers together 277 letters of Pope Honorius III (1216-1227) concerning Frankish Greece and Constantinople. These letters constitute an indispensable source for the early history of the territories conquered during and just after the Fourth Crusade of 1204, for which almost no local archival material survives. The Latin texts of many of the letters are published here for the first time, and almost all the letters have been reedited from the manuscripts, primarily the papal registers in the Vatican Archives. In addition, the volume makes the letters available to non-specialists through exhaustive English summaries of all the letters and complete translations of the most significant ones. A lengthy historical introduction uses these letters to portray the dynamic world of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, the Kingdom of Thessaloniki, and the other states that replaced Byzantium, as the precarious condition of the Latin states compelled the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome to temper their ambitions of transcultural religious unity with pragmatic measures. It explores how this mixture of cultural idealism, practical necessity, and divergent class structures manifested themselves in Honorius' policy towards the lower Greek clergy and Greek and Latin religious orders. Maps, tables, indices, and a guide to papal letters make the volume a useful tool for future studies of this fascinating and controversial phase in the history of Greece and the papacy.
During the course of the research, I was made aware of the existence of a fragment from the Cartulary in Archives nationales, AB XIX 1734. Two years later, I was able to consult the fragment. The 1996 revision incorporates those findings (#415-420], and provides non-standard thesis formatting (single spacing instead of double spacing) to reduce the size of the document.
In 2023, I found and scanned the images used for the figures. Those from the Cartulary I replaced with images taken from the retro-digitization of the microfilm of latin 9901.
The reference version is kept at: http://fragmentology.ms
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Qu’est-ce que la matière? Cette question a traversé l’histoire de la culture occidentale et a interpellé de nombreux philosophes et scientifiques, dont les théories témoignent d’une étonnante diversité. Le Moyen Âge latin a donné un apport significatif à l’élaboration de cette notion qui, à partir de Platon et d’Aristote, allait devenir l’un des pivots de la philosophie de la nature et de la métaphysique occidentales. Le colloque Micrologus dont nous publions les Actes a permis de compléter et d’approfondir l’étude des conceptions médiévales de la matière élaborées entre le XIIe et le XVIe siècle. Grâce à des approches disciplinaires diversifiées, à la prise en compte de contextes et de genres littéraires distincts ainsi que d’auteurs encore peu étudiés aujourd’hui, ces contributions permettent au lecteur de découvrir les multiples facettes que la notion de matière, ses représentations et sa perception ont revêtues dans la pensée et la culture médiévale.