The Problem of the Unicity of Truth in the Early Oxford Franciscan School

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought 1
5. The Network of Franciscan Schools in England: From the Local scholae to the studia generalia 23
6. How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229–35 57
7. Medieval Images of Alexander of Hales 77
8. Adam Rufus of Exeter, Master and Minor (d. 1234): A State of the Art 93
9. Lights in the Darkness: Counsel, Deliberation, and Illumination in the Letters of Adam Marsh 127
10. The Problem of the Unicity of Truth in the Early Oxford Franciscan School 149
11. Nec idem nec aliud: The Powers of the Soul and the Origins of the Formal Distinction 171
12. ‘They Tend into Nothing by Their Own Nature’: Rufus and an Anonymous De Generatione Commentary on the Principles of Corruptibility 199
13. Intersecting Wisdom: Thomas of York and His Sources 221
14. Bartholomew the Englishman, ‘Master of the Properties of Things’: Between Exegesis and Preaching 243
15. Disentangling Roger Bacon’s Criticism of Medieval Translations 261
16. John Pecham’s Theory of Natural Cognition: Perception 283
17. The Form of the Body: John Pecham’s Critique of Aquinas’ Doctrine of the Soul and the Summa Halensis 311
18. Contributor Biographies 327
19. Index 331