Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism - University of London Press Skip to main content Search Search Home Books Open access Series Subject Journals Publish with us Author testimonials Open Access policy Artificial Intelligence policy Peer review and publication ethics Submit a proposal About us Funding and governance Meet the team News Our mission Projects, partners and initiatives Publishing partners Stay in touch Information Accessibility Digital editions FAQs For authors For booksellers and librarians For reviewers and media Open Access Rights and permissions Statistics Training Hub Books Journals Open Access Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication Peer review Marketing Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Copyright: © Authors 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/520.9781912702305 Publication date: 31 July 2020 To request a review copy of this title, please email us: [email protected] Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism Antonia Fitzpatrick (Editor), John Sabapathy (Editor) Series: New Historical Perspectives Published in association with: Institute of Historical Research, Royal Historical Society Open Access publication funded by Knowledge Unlatched Read online Download (PDF) Download (Epub) Purchase Paperback (UK) – £26.99 Paperback (US) – $35.99 Hardback (UK) – £75.00 Hardback (US) – $100.00 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. Contents Formats Authors Subjects Accessibility Introduction: individuals and institutions in medieval scholasticism Antonia Fitzpatrick and John Sabapathy I. Individuals and intellectual traditions: construction and criticism 1. The fathers of scholasticism: authorities as totems Blaise Dufal 2. The unicity of substantial form in the Correctoria corruptorii fratris Thomae of Richard Knapwell, Robert Orford and John of Paris Antonia Fitzpatrick 3. Italian universities, arts masters and interpreting Pomponazzi’s De immortalitate animae John Marenbon 4. Individual and institution in scholastic historiography: Nicholas Trevet Matthew Kempshall II. Institutions and individuals: organizations and social practices a. Individuals and organizations 5. The charismatic leader and the vita religiosa : some observations about an apparent contradiction between individual and institution Gert Melville 6. An institution made of individuals: Peter John Olivi and Angelo Clareno on the Franciscan experience Sylvain Piron 7. Rolando of Cremona and the earliest inquisition depositions of Languedoc Peter Biller b. Individuals and practices 8. Robert of Courson’s systematic thinking about early thirteenth-century institutions John Sabapathy 9. ‘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 10. Of parish priests and hermaphrodites: Robert Holcot’s discussion of Omnis utriusque sexus Cornelia Linde 11. The cult of the marriage of Joseph and Mary: the shaping of doctrinal novelty in Jean Gerson’s Josephina (1414–17) Isabel Iribarren Afterword David d’Avray PDF: 9781912702305 EPUB: 9781912702282 Read Online: 9781913002282 Hardback: 9781912702268 / 245mm x 163mm Paperback: 9781912702275 / 156mm x 234mm Antonia Fitzpatrick (Editor) John Sabapathy (Editor) Subject: History , Medieval History BISAC codes: HIS015020 Thema codes: GTB, NHDJ Keywords: epic poetry, medieval, networks, polemics, scholastic EPUB accessibility: Accessibility summary EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.1 Table of contents navigation Index navigation Single logical reading order Short alternative textual descriptions Print-equivalent page numbering Use of color is not sole means of conveying information Next / Previous structural navigation ARIA roles provided Appearance of all textual content can be modified All non-decorative content supports reading without sight WCAG v2.2 WCAG level AA Compliance certification by (name) More books in this subject area Britain’s Urban Crisis Aaron Andrews 4 February 2027 Museums and Patronage Scott Anthony Alice Byrne Harry Parker 3 December 2026 Living with Machines Ruth Ahnert Emma Griffin Jon Lawrence The Living with Machines Team 12 November 2026 Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law Joanna McCunn Gwen Seabourne 29 October 2026 Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence Gillian Jack 15 October 2026 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: The Welsh Dioceses XIV William H. 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