A Companion to Giles of Rome

331 Pages·2016·8.831 MB·English

by  Charles F. Briggs, Peter S. Eardley (eds.)

A Companion to Giles of Rome
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A Companion to Giles of Rome
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Peter S. Eardley
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Cover illustration: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum (Italian, s. xiv); Paris, Biblioth£que nationale de
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi i
Abbreviations vi 11
List of Contributors ix
Introduction i
Charles F. Briggs and Peter S. Eardley
1 Life, Works, and Legacy 6
Charles F. Briggs
2 Theology 34
Richard Cross
3 Natural Philosophy 73
Silvia Donati and Cecilia Trifogli
4 Metaphysics 114
Martin Pickave
5 Cognition 150
Giorgio Pini
6 Ethics and Moral Psychology 173
Peter S. Eardley
7 Logic, Rhetoric, and Language 212
Costantino Marmo
8 Political Thought 255
Roberto Lambertini
Chronology of the Works of Giles of Rome 275
Editions of Giles of Rome’s Works 277
Bibliography 282
Index 307

Acknowledgements
Charles Briggs thanks the dedicated faculty and staff of the University of
Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library, and especially those in the Inter Library Loan
Department, for their unflagging generous assistance. He thanks Sean Field of
History Department and the participants in the Dartmouth Medieval
u v m ’s
Seminar for their helpful comments on an early version of his chapter. He is
also grateful to Monika Otter of the Comparative Literature Program and
English Department, Dartmouth College, for her expert advice when translat
ing portions of Roberto Lambertini's chapter.
Peter Eardley is grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada for a Standard Research Grant that assisted in producing
this volume. Among other things, it allowed for several trips to the library of
the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, which were indis
pensable to the editorial work that went into the volume. He is also grateful
to the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation for a fellowship to the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 2011—2012. Part of the money associ
ated with that Fellowship allowed him to hire a research assistant, Mr. Jakob
Heller, to proofread the various chapters and their citations. The editors are
also grateful to Mr. Heller for assisting in the production of the bibliography of
secondary sources. Finally, the editors gratefully acknowledge the aid rendered
by the two anonymous reviewers, whose many learned criticisms and sugges
tions have much improved this volume.
Abbreviations
AHDLMA Archives dfHisto ire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Äge
CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina
CUP Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis
De cognitione angelorum Quaestiones disputatae de cognitione angelorum
De differentia De differentia rhetoricae, ethicae et politicae
De ecclesiastica De ecclesiastica potestate
De mensura De mensura angelorum
De partibus De partibus philosophiae essentialibus
De regimine De regimine principum
De renunciatione De renunciatione pape
Documenti e studi Documenti e studi sulla tradizionefilosofica medievale
Hexaemeron Opus Hexaemeron
In Canticum In Canticum Canticorum expositio
In Physicam Commentaria in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis
Ordinatio i In primum librum Sententiarum
Ordinatio 2 In secundum librum Sententiarum
PL Patrologia Latina
Reportatio Reportatio lecturae super libros i~iv Sententiarum
Super Libros Elenchorum Expositio super libros Elenchorum
Super Libros Rhetoricorum Expositio super libros Rhetoricorum
List of Contributors
Charles Briggs
is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Vermont. His numerous pub
lications include Giles of Rome's “De regimine principum”: Reading and Writing
Politics at Court and University, c. 12/5-0. 1525 (1999); The Body Broken: Medieval
Europe 1300-1520 (2011); “Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An
Underground History,” in The Study ofM edieval Manuscripts of England (2010);
and “Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature,” in The Oxford History of
Classical Reception in English Literature (2016). With David Fowler and Paul
Remley he edited The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa’s Middle
English Translation of the “De regimine principum’’ ofA egidius Romanus (1997),
and he is currently preparing an edition and English translation of the De regi
mine principum. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has been a
Starr Visiting Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, a Mellon Fellow
at Saint Louis University, and a Leslie Humanities Center Fellow at Dartmouth
College.
Richard Cross
is Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy
Department at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously Professor of
Medieval Theology at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor in the
Faculty of Theology at the Universita Pontificia Antonianum in Rome. He spe
cializes in the philosophy and theology of the later Middle Ages, with particu
lar reference to the thought of John Duns Scotus and his predecessors. He is
the author of The Physics ofDuns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological
Vision (1998), Duns Scotus (1999), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Thomas
Aquinas to Duns Scotus (2002), Duns Scotus on God (2005), The Medieval
Christian Philosophers (2014) and Duns Scotus’s Theory of Cognition (2014). In
addition, he is author of over 80 articles and book chapters.
Silvia Donati
is a Research Fellow at the Albertus-Magnus-Institut in Bonn. She has held
research assistantships and fellowships at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn,
Leuven and Padua. She specializes in later medieval philosophy. She is editor
of the Aristoteles Latinus provisional edition of the De memoria et reminiscen
tia (2006), and co-editor of several volumes in the Opera Omnia of Nicholas of
Cusa. Most recently, she has co-edited Albert the Great’s commentary on the
Categories (2013). She is author of over 40 academic articles on medieval
metaphysics and natural philosophy, with particular reference to the thought
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
of Giles of Rome, Thomas Wylton, Walter Burley, Robert Kilwardby and Albert
the Great. She is currently preparing the critical edition of Albert’s commen
taries on the De sensu et sensato and the De memoria et reminiscentia, and his
treatise De nutrimento et nutrito. She has edited, with Cecilia Trifogli and
Jennifer Ashworth, Geoffrey of Aspall’s commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
(forthcoming 2016).
Peter Eardley
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, where he spe
cializes in later medieval philosophy. His articles on Giles of Rome’s moral psy
chology have appeared in the Review of Metaphysics, the Journal of the History
of Philosophy, Mediaeval Studies and Vivarium, and his studies on medieval
theories of ethics in the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine
and the Recherches de Thiologie et Philosophie medievales. He is also co-author
(with Carl N. Still) of Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010). He has held
research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, and a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander
von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, in which capacity he was associated with
the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Roberto Lambertini
is Professor of Mediaeval History in the Department of Humanities at the
University of Macerata, Italy. He specializes in the history of the Mendicant
Orders, in intellectual history, and political thought, with special reference to
Giles of Rome and the Franciscan Tradition. Some of his studies about
Franciscan Poverty are collected in the volume La poverta pensata (2000) He is
author or co-author of over 120 academic articles and book chapters.
Costantino Marmo
is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the
University of Bologna and President of the School of Arts and Humanities
(Scuola di Lettere e Beni culturali) at the University of Bologna. He specializes
in medieval theories of logic, semantics, grammar, and semiotics. He is the
author of numerous articles, and editor or co-editor of several collections,
including On the Medieval Theory of Signs (1989) with Umberto Eco. His most
recent monographs are La semiotica del xm secolo tra arti liberali e teologia
(2010) and Segni, linguaggi, testi Semiotica per la comunicazione (2014).
Martin Pickave
is Professor of Philosophy and a Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy
in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He specializes in