Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour
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 Letter Kills, But the Spirit Gives Life”: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1310
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
The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences Falque, Emmanuel (Catholic Institute of Paris) (translated from…
Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy
Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Can one speak…
The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ
The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993)…