Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century

Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century
Author: William J. Courtenay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 1999-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139426109

This study of the social, geographical and disciplinary composition of the scholarly community at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document: the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329–1330. Containing the names, financial level and often addresses of the majority of the masters and most prominent students, it is the single richest source for the social history of a medieval university before the late fourteenth century. After a thorough examination of the financial account, the history of such collections, and the case (a rape by a student) that precipitated legal expenses and the need for a collection, the book explores residential patterns, the relationship of students, masters and tutors, social class and levels of wealth, interaction with the royal court and the geographical background of university scholars.

Ars nova

Ars nova
Author: John L. Nádas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351575805

In the early fourteenth century, musicians in France and later Italy established new traditions of secular and sacred polyphony. This ars nova, or "new art," popularized by theorists such as Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris was the among the first of many later movements to establish the music of the present as a clean break from the past. The rich music of this period, by composers such as Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini, is not only beautiful, but also rewards deep study and analysis. Yet contradictions and gaps abound in the ars nova of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries-how do we read this music? how do we perform this music? what was the cultural context of these performances? These problems are well met by the ingenuity of approaches and solutions found by scholars in this volume. The twenty-seven articles brought together reflect the broad methodological and chronological range of scholarly inquiry on the ars nova.

Paris in the Middle Ages

Paris in the Middle Ages
Author: Simone Roux
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812241592

Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Simone Roux peers into the secret lives of people within their homes and the public world of affairs and entertainments, populating the book with laborers, shop keepers, magistrates, thieves, and strollers.

Ockham and Ockhamism

Ockham and Ockhamism
Author: William J. Courtenay
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004168303

Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockhama (TM)s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris around 1340, and the legacy of Ockhamist thought into the sixteenth century.

Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Century

Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Century
Author: Stephen F. Brown
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9047429109

This collection of essays, papers originally delivered at conferences in Bonn and Boston, show in a detailed way the tone and nature of philosophical and theological issues and arguments at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century. They touch on a large number of authors and a broad spectrum of subjects and present these discussions with regard to the intellectual framework set by the earlier Parisian generation of Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and Godfrey of Fontaine. It becomes evident that the principal contributors to the new intellectual energy in early fourteenth-century discussions at Paris are Meister Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St.-Pourçain, Walter Burley and Petrus Aureoli.

Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris

Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris
Author: Ian P. Wei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2012-05-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107009693

This book explores the ideas of theologians at the medieval University of Paris and their attempts to shape society. Investigating their views on money, marriage and sex, Ian Wei reveals the complexity of what theologians had to say about the world around them, and the increasing challenges to their authority.

Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris

Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris
Author: Spencer E. Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107031044

This book explores the individuals and ideas involved in one of the most transformative periods in higher education's history.

Peter of Auvergne

Peter of Auvergne
Author: Christoph Flüeler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2014-12-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110228491

peter of Auvergne (+1304) is one of the most productive and most influential commentators of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris, At the end of the 13th century Peter actually moved to the upper theological faculty, where he argued a number of quodlibeta. This volume of conference proceedings represents the first examination of the work of Peter of Auvergne as a whole. In addition, biographical information has been interpreted in new ways. Many of the contributions present research on aspects of his commentaries on the logical, natural philosophical, metaphysical, ethical, and political works of Aristotle, as well as aspects of his theological works. A comparison with contemporaneous authors demonstrates that Peter presents a thoroughly distinctive line of thought and that previous classifications must be differentiated or even discarded. In addition, Peter develops an astounding history of reception with some of his works that continued into early modernity.

King’s Hall, Cambridge and the Fourteenth-Century Universities

King’s Hall, Cambridge and the Fourteenth-Century Universities
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004435050

This collection looks at the disciplines (from logic, through science and theology, to medicine and law) and their context in the late thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities, from the perspective of the usually neglected University of Cambridge.