{"title":"THE THEOLOGIAN AND THE CONTRACTS : HENRY OF GHENT AND THE EMPTIO-VENDITIO REDDITUUM","authors":"Marialucrezia Leone","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.75.1.2030804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.75.1.2030804","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1276 and 1288, Henry of Ghent composes four quodlibetal questions concerning the 'economic' practice commonly known as 'rent contracts' or emptio-venditio reddituum. In contrast to other authors of his day, Henry holds that these rent contracts are not legitimate, arguing that the practice is just a form of usury. In particular the Flemish doctor, following Aristotle, denounces the emptio-venditio reddituum as a kind of usurious loan being contra naturam. In this article I want to show that behind his condemnation of this 'economic' practice lie two aims: 1) to demonstrate the central role of the master of theology in society, that is, not only in the religious, but also in the civil society of his time; 2) to attack, as a secular master, the religious orders. Henry argues that because the validity of a norm depends on whether or not it conforms to the natural/divine law, rather than to the positive law (civil or canonical), the legitimacy of a norm must be established by the theologian. The reason for this is that the theologian knows the natural and religious law better than anyone else. Accordingly, the secular theologian becomes the unique authority in 'economic' matters in particular and in ethics more generally. By contrast, the religious orders seem to endorse the emptio-venditio reddituum. Henry argues that this betrays their ignorance concerning the natural law. As a consequence, they should not be given authority in 'economic' or moral matters.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"75 1","pages":"137-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81960865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JAMES OF VITERBO AND THE LATE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE CONCERNING THE REALITY OF THE POSSIBLES","authors":"M. Gossiaux","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024658","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reconstructs the teaching of James of Viterbo on the ontological status of the possibles, and compares his position with those of Henry of Ghent and Godfrey of Fontaines. James holds that possibles are real only in a qualified sense, as objects of God's power and knowledge. While James appears to have been influenced by Henry in his explanation of divine knowledge of creatures, in his analysis of the possibles he makes no use of Henry's theory of esse essentiae, and he denies Henry's claim that divine ideas function as exemplar causes of the possibiles. James' theory is actually much closer to that of Godfrey, although Godfrey himself was highly critical of James' teaching.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"33 1","pages":"483-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88521717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LE CREDO DANS LA MÉTHODE THÉOLOGIQUE DE LA PREMIÈRE PÉRIODE CAROLINGIENNE","authors":"Kristina Mitalaitė","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024656","url":null,"abstract":"During the first Carolingian period, the creed, defined as symbolum, not only signified the political and ecclesiological unity of Charlemagne's kingdom and then empire, but was also a factor in the organization of theological treatises. The collection of creeds, initially included in Dagulf's manuscript - made as a gift for Pope Hadrian I - was widely copied and «corrected» in the Carolingian world. These emendations to the creed reveal the Carolingian desire to defend faith against new «heresies» like adoptianism or Greek pneumatology.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"1 1","pages":"377-421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73459761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 'scholastic' theology of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: between biblical faith and academic skepticism","authors":"A. Edelheit","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024659","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's detailed reaction against the condemnation of some of his famous Theses by a papal commission, through a careful reading of his Apology of 1487. This text, which was never studied in detail and still waits for a critical edition, reflects Pico's remarkable familiarity with the scholastic thinkers up to his own times. As part of his self-defense, Pico deals with the relation between opinions and faith, probable knowledge and certain truth, philosophy and theology, thus developing a method for examining theological opinions. To some extent, this method was based on the classical notions of probabile and veri simile, coming from the ancient Academic skeptics, which Pico knew from Cicero and Augustine. This, I argue, was part of Pico's humanist theology, his solution for the authority crisis of his time and for what he regarded as an unsolved tension in scholastic philosophy between human opinions and the revealed truth of faith.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"17 1","pages":"523-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88739603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GEORGIOS SCHOLARIOS : GENNADIOS II'S FLORILEGIUM THOMISTICUM II (DE FATO) AND ITS ANTI-PLETHONIC TENOR","authors":"J. Demetracopoulos","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.2.2024655","url":null,"abstract":"In Marc. gr., classis XI,18 (coll. 1042) (saec. XV) an anonymous florilegium consisting of selected paragraphs of the Second Part of the Fifth Division («De providentia Dei») of the 3 rd book of Thomas Aquinas' Summa contra Gentiles is extant. These paragraphs were excerpted from the Greek translation (1354) of the Latin text by Demetrios Cydones (ch. 84, § 8-14; ch. 85, § 19-20; ch. 86, § 9-14; ch. 87; ch. 93; ch. 105 (tide) and 106 (position); ch. 101, § 2 partim; 103; ch. 94, § 3-5; 12-15). The main topic of this text is «fate». An edition of it is offered, and it is argued, on the basis of its similarity with another florilegium Thomisticum of the professed Byzantine Thomist Georgios Scholarios - Gennadios II (ca. 1400 - post 1472) as well as with some of his writings, that it must be attributed to the same author. It should be probably placed in 1444/53 and regarded as part of Scholarios' preparation for refuting Georgios Gemistos - Plethon's Laws 11,6, which from 1439 onwards was circulated independently as Defato.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"52 1","pages":"301-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88950091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Byzantine philosophy as a contemporary historiographical project","authors":"M. Trizio","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"89 1","pages":"247-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85853584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stephen Langton and Hugh of St. Cher on Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica : The Lombard's sentences and the problem of sources used by Comestor and his commentators","authors":"M. Clark","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022837","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explore preliminarily whether Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica was well suited to extended theological inquiry. After providing a brief introduction to Comestor's method to acquaint the reader with the literary character of the History, I turn my attention to the use by Stephen Langton and Hugh of St. Cher, two prominent commentators on the History, of source material that Comestor himself used in composing the History. I pay particular attention to the Lombard's Sentences, the most important source for Comestor's treatment of the first three chapters of Genesis in the first twenty-five chapters of the History and, not surprisingly, a crucial source for his two commentators. Focusing on source material from the Lombard's Sentences used both by Comestor and by Langton and Hugh illustrates well the disparate ends of Comestor and his commentators. It also provides a common basis for comparing not only how the two Peters treated certain problematic theological matters but also how Langton and Hugh interpreted and commented upon Comestor's presentation of the same. I conclude that, at least in certain instances, a work like the History was not entirely amenable to the new ways of pursuing theological inquiry in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"8 1","pages":"63-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79191957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Western Understanding of Islamic Theology in the Later Middle Ages. Mendicant Responses to Islam from Riccoldo da Monte di Croce to Marquard von Lindau","authors":"S. Mossman","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022839","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the defence of the immaculate conception of Mary in the works of the Franciscan Marquard von Lindau (d. 1392), principally the Dekalogerklarung, one of the five most widely transmitted vernacular works in pre-Reformation Germany. It establishes that Marquard's justification rests on a set of pertinent Qur'anic and related Islamic texts that he has collected together from the Pugio fidei, an anti-Jewish treatise in Hebrew and Latin by the Spanish Dominican Ramon Marti (d. c. 1285). Marquard's explicit preference for the Islamic doctrine over the Dominican position, itself perfectly orthodox, regarding the issue displays an unprecedented receptivity towards Islamic theology, which is indicative of a more widespread renewed intellectual engagement with Islam and its doctrines outside the confines of religious polemics on the part of a series of notable mendicants in the period 1300-1450, including Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Nicholas of Lyra and Robert Holcot. The evidence for the transmission and reception of Islamic theology in the period from the fall of Acre to the fall of Constantinople displays not intellectual stagnation, but the existence of a widened mental space in the period after the demise of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in which aspects of Islam both could and had to be (re-)evaluated in original and surprisingly often non-polemical ways.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"81 1","pages":"169-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87342448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guillaume d'Auvergne ou Jacques de Vitry? Encore à propos du De confessione","authors":"F. Morenzoni","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022836","url":null,"abstract":"Palemon Glorieux proposed in 1949 to attribute a small treatise on Penance (De confessione) that was published for the first time in 1674 to William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249. F. N. M. Dietkstra has rejected this attribution in 1994, essentially because the treatise is present in the Jacques de Vitry's collection of Sermones de tempore. However, the text appears -explicitly attributed to the bishop of Paris - in one of the six manuscripts of sermons that Robert of Sorbon bequeathed, probably in 1274, to the library of the college that he founded. The three manuscripts of the 13 th century that indicate William of Auvergne as the author of the De confessione make plausible this attribution. The paper ends with the edition of the short version of the text.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"155 1","pages":"33-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83831008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shame in the context of sin : Augustine on the feeling of shame in De Civitate Dei","authors":"Tianyue Wu","doi":"10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.74.1.2022835","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of shame has attracted little attention in Augustinian scholarship. This article will provide a detailed analysis of Augustine's case studies of Lucretia's rape and Adam's act of covering himself after the Fall in De ciuitate Dei. It will be argued that Augustine's subtle depiction of shame-feeling in the context of guilt and sin offers us an illuminating interpretation of shame and its intimate relation to personal identity.","PeriodicalId":41176,"journal":{"name":"Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88454930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}