Medievalists.net » Bonaventure http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:27:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52443 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 post Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/feed/ 0 “The Letter Kills, But the Spirit Gives Life”: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1310 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/the-letter-kills-but-the-spirit-gives-life-the-rise-of-learning-in-the-franciscan-order-1210-1310/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/the-letter-kills-but-the-spirit-gives-life-the-rise-of-learning-in-the-franciscan-order-1210-1310/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:06:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30149 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 post “The Letter Kills, But the Spirit Gives Life”: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1310 appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/14/the-letter-kills-but-the-spirit-gives-life-the-rise-of-learning-in-the-franciscan-order-1210-1310/feed/ 0 The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/03/the-phenomenological-act-of-perscrutatio-in-the-proemium-of-st-bonaventure%e2%80%99s-commentary-on-the-sentences/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/03/the-phenomenological-act-of-perscrutatio-in-the-proemium-of-st-bonaventure%e2%80%99s-commentary-on-the-sentences/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:16:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12104 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 […]

The post The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/03/the-phenomenological-act-of-perscrutatio-in-the-proemium-of-st-bonaventure%e2%80%99s-commentary-on-the-sentences/feed/ 0 Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/06/bonaventure-and-the-question-of-a-medieval-philosophy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/06/bonaventure-and-the-question-of-a-medieval-philosophy/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:39:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10989 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 post Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/06/bonaventure-and-the-question-of-a-medieval-philosophy/feed/ 0 The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/27/the-certainty-and-scope-of-knowledge-bonaventures-disputed-questions-on-the-knowledge-of-christ/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/27/the-certainty-and-scope-of-knowledge-bonaventures-disputed-questions-on-the-knowledge-of-christ/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:44:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10608 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) […]

The post The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/27/the-certainty-and-scope-of-knowledge-bonaventures-disputed-questions-on-the-knowledge-of-christ/feed/ 0