The idea of collaborating on the edition of Richard FitzRalph’s questions from his Lectura in Sententias germinated during a very unsettling time of the coronavirus pandemic and was inspired by our fascination with fourteenth-century Oxonian thought.
This volume presents a critical edition of Book I, question 10, Utrum omnis amor procedat ab aliqua notitia, from Richard FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias, a commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences dealing with ethics and the philosophy of the mind. Its introduction and doctrinal analysis of FitzRalph’s concept of the will shed light on FitzRalph’s voluntarism and his influence on Oxonian, Parisian, and Italian thinkers, who quite quickly embraced his ideas, abundantly citing and referring to them in their writings. The will was among the most extensively debated issues at Oxford in the 1330s, yet FitzRalph’s remarkable contribution to this legacy still remains understudied. The aim of this volume is to make FitzRalph’s views on the will available to a wider readership and to provide insight into his approach, arguments, and methodology.
The research for this volume was funded by the National Science Centre (Poland) under grant agreement UMO-2022/47/B/HS1/00071.
We are deeply grateful to Edit A. Lukács, Monika Mansfeld, Andrea Nannini, Joanna Sygit, and Patrycja Poniatowska for their comments and suggestions, which helped us improve the text.
While we are indebted to numerous people for their encouragement and help, our special, heartfelt thank-you goes to our families, and especially to Wojtek and Susi for their unwavering support during the work on the volume and the reviewing process.
We also thank the STGM editorial board, the outstanding team of editors and the staff at Brill, and particularly Marcella Mulder for her guidance and patience.
Monika Michałowska & Michael W. Dunne