Speculum Stultorum

This term I’ve been running scholastic Latin reading classes at three difficulty levels, and at the highest level I offered to cover not onl...

In 1897, a 26-year-old Prussian named Wilhelm Herkner received his doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität...

Working on a medieval Latin dictionary confronts me with material for which my training in intellectual history is little help – financial ...

In his handbook chapter on ‘Mathematics in Fourteenth-Century Theology’ (2009), which introduces historians of mathematics to the surprising...

I've just started a job-related blog, Quisquiliae , whose remit will not always be separable from that of this blog.  As and when there ...

The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982) has only two substantial discussions of Peter Auriol (a page each on future conti...

Here's yet another of Auriol's statements of ontological parsimony : ‘ Constat enim quod omnis natura refugit superfluitatem – quant...

I can't wait to get my hands on the second volume of Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Current Research , whic...

In his excellent book Theology at Paris (2000), Chris Schabel reports Michael of Massa (fl. c.1330–37) as having suggested that God could f...

Sharon Kaye's article ‘Some Philosophical Reflections on the Coming of the Antichrist’ (2000) makes more depressing reading than its tit...