Where the Middle Ages Begin
The rise of the new mendicant orders, foremost the Franciscans and Dominicans, is one of the great success stories of thirteenth-century Europe. Combining apostolic poverty with sophisticated organization and university learning, they brought much needed improvements to pastoral care in the growing cities.
The twelfth century was marked by a general enthusiasm for two phenomena: scholastic learning and voluntary poverty. The division of society into clergy and laymen maintained itself in response to these two enthusiasms.
The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences Falque, Emmanuel (Catholic Institute of Paris) (translated from the French by ELISA MANGINA) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract As Hans Urs von Balthasar has put it, “nothing is more typical of [St. Bonaventure] than the prologue to the […]
Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Can one speak coherently of Bonaventure’s philosophy? Or is such an idea nothing more than a modern hermeneutical fancy? The arguments against the view that Bonaventure has a philosophy are of diverse origin. Certain influential […]
The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract I shall be concerned here with two key questions for any theory of knowledge: (1) Is there such a thing as certainty of knowledge and, if so, what is it? (2) […]
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