A companion to Giles of Rome

331 Pages·2016·187.493 MB·English

by  Charles F Briggs

A Companionto Giles of Rome
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A Companion to Giles of Rome
Edited by
Charles F. Briggs
Peter S. Eardley
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Coverillustration: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum(Italian, s. xiv); Paris, Bibliothéque nationale de
France, Ms.Latin 10207,fol. 2r. Giles of Romelecturesthe king (Philip the Fair) and people. (Photo courtesy
of the Bibliothéquenationale de France)
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Title: A companionto Giles of Rome/ edited by Charles F. Briggs,Peter S.
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Contents
Acknowledgements viti
Abbreviations vii!
List of Contributors 1x
Introduction 1
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 14
Martin Pickavé
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/HoweLibrary, and especially those in the Inter Library Loan
Department,for their unflagging generousassistance. He thanks SeanField of
UvM's History Department and the participants in the Dartmouth Medieval
Seminarfor their helpful comments onanearly 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 Canadafor a Standard Research Grantthat assisted in producing
this volume. Amongotherthings, 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-Universitat Freiburg from 2011-2012. Part of the moneyassoci-
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 productionofthe bibliography of
secondary sources.Finally, the editors gratefully acknowledge the aid rendered
by the two anonymousreviewers, whose manylearned criticisms and sugges-
tions have much improved this volume.
Abbreviations
Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Áge
AHDLMA
Corpus Christianorum Series Latina
CCSL
Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis
CUP
De cognitione angelorum Quaestiones disputatae de cognitione angelorum
Dedifferentia
De differentia rhetoricae, ethicaeet politicae
Deecclesiastica Deecclesiastica potestate
De mensura angelorum
De mensura
Departibus De partibus philosophiae essentialibus
De regimine De regimine principum
De renunciatione De renunciatione pape
Documenti e studi Documentie studi sulla tradizionefilosofica medievale
Hexaemeron Opus Hexaemeron
In Canticum In Canticum Canticorum expositio
In Physicam Commentaria in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis
Ordinatio 1 In primum librum Sententiarum
Ordinatio 2 In secundum librum Sententiarum
Patrologia Latina
PL
Reportatio Reportatio lecturae superlibros 1-1V 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 ofRome's *De regimine principum": Reading and Writing
Politics at Court and University, c. 1275—c. 1525 (1999); The Body Broken: Medieval
Europe 1300—1520 (2011); "Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An
UndergroundHistory,” in The Study ofMedieval Manuscripts ofEngland (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" ofAegidius Romanus(1997),
and heis currently preparing an edition and English translation of the Deregi-
mine principum. Heis 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
Departmentat 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 Università 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 DunsScotus and his predecessors. He is
the author of The Physics ofDuns Scotus: The Scientific Context ofa 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.Shespecializes 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 volumesin the Opera Omnia ofNicholas of
Cusa. Mostrecently, 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
x LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
of Giles of Rome, Thomas Wylton, Walter Burley, Robert Kilwardby and Albert
the Great. She is currently preparingthe 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 ofMetaphysics, 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 ofAugustine
andthe Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales. 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 HumboldtStiftung/Foundation, in which capacity he was associated with
the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat 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 volumeLa povertà pensata (2000) He is
author or co-authorof 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 monographsare La semiotica del X111 secolo tra arti liberali e teologia
(2010) and Segni, linguaggi, testi. Semiotica per la comunicazione (2014).
Martin Pickavé
is Professor of Philosophy and a Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy
in the Departmentof Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He specializes in