Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism / Antonia Fitzpatrick, John Sabapathy.

• Superior document: New Historical Perspectives
• TeilnehmendeR: Fitzpatrick, Antonia; Sabapathy, John
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : University of London Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: New Historical Perspectives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 p.)

This volume explores the relationship between individuals and institutions in scholastic thought and practice across the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, setting an agenda for future debates. Written by leading European experts from numerous fields, this theoretically sophisticated collection analyses a wide range of intellectual practices and disciplines. Avoiding narrow approaches to scholasticism, the book addresses ethics, history, heresy, law, inquisition, metaphysics, pastoral care, poetry, religious orders, saints' cults and theology. A substantial introduction establishes an accessible historiographical context for the volume's agenda, and a final afterword examines implications for future research. The history of individuals and institutions in scholasticism has often been unhelpfully treated either as a simple intellectual genealogy of schools and doctrines, or a constitutional history of particular organizational forms. This volume advances our understanding by reconsidering these fields as a whole and addressing two large questions. What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks? How did individuals alter their institutions, and how did those institutions shape their individuality? This volume is of major importance to intellectual, religious and cultural historians as well as historians of knowledge and science. It will engage those working on individuals and institutions in the middle ages as well as in other periods.

Table of Contents

Introduction Individuals and institutions in medieval scholasticism / Antonia Fitzpatrick, John Sabapathy -- I. Individuals and intellectual traditions : construction and criticism. The fathers of scholasticism : authorities as totems / Blaise Dufal -- The unicity of substantial form in the Correctoria corruptorii fratris Thomae of Richard Knapwell, Robert Orford and John of Paris / Antonia Fitzpatrick -- Italian universities, arts masters and interpreting Pomponazzi's De immoratlitate animae / John Marenbon -- Individual and institution in scholastic historiography : Nicholas Trevet / Matthew Kempshall -- II. Institutions and individuals : organizations and social practices. The charismatic leader and the Vita religiosa : some observations about an apparent contradiction between individual and institution / Gert Melville -- An institution made of individuals : Peter John Olivi and Angelo Clareno on the Franciscan experience / Sylvain Piron -- Rolando of Cremona and the earliest inquisition depositions of Languedoc / Peter Biller -- Robert of Courson's systematic thinking about early thirteenth-century institutions / John Sabapathy -- 'Better to let scandal arise than to relinquish the truth : the cases of conscience of the masters of Paris in the thirteenth century / Emily Corran -- Of parish priests and hermaphrodites : Robert Holcot's discussion of Omnis utriusque sexus / Conelia Linde -- The cult of the marriage of Joseph and Mary : the shaping of doctrinal novelty in Jean Gerson's Josephina (1414-17) / Isabel Iribarren.