A Companion to Richard FitzRalph

Fourteenth-Century Scholar, Bishop, and Polemicist

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This book presents an overview together with a detailed examination of the life and ideas of a major thinker and protagonist of the first half of the fourteenth century, Richard FitzRalph (1300-60, Armachanus). A central figure in debates at Oxford, Avignon and Ireland, FitzRalph is perhaps best-known for his central role in the poverty controversies of the 1350s. Each of the chapters collected here sheds a different perspective on the many aspects of FitzRalph’s life and works, from his time at the University of Oxford, his role as preacher and pastoral concerns, his contacts with the Eastern Churches, and finally his case at the Papal court against the privileges granted to the Franciscans. His influence and later reputation is also examined.

Contributors include: Michael W. Dunne, Jean-François Genest†, Michael Haren, Elżbieta Jung, Severin V. Kitanov, Stephen Lahey, Monika Michałowska, Simon Nolan O.Carm, Bridget Riley, Chris Schabel, and John T. Slotemaker
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2023
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Michael W. Dunne, Ph.D. (1991), Maynooth University (Ireland) is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth. He has published extensively both on Irish thinkers of the Middle Ages and philosophy at Oxford in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Simon Nolan O.Carm lectures in Philosophy at Maynooth. His research has focused on the early Carmelite scholastics, Gerard of Bologna (d. 1317), John Baconthorpe (ca.1290-1345/8), and Guido Terreni (ca.1270.1342). He is a member of the Carmelite Order and Prior of the principal Carmelite church and priory in Dublin city.
Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
  Michael W. Dunne and Simon Nolan

Part 1
Oxford Debates
1 Richard FitzRalph on Beatitude
  Severin V. Kitanov

2 Mind as a Trinity of Intellect, Memory, and Will
  Michael W. Dunne

3 FitzRalph on the Activity of the Will
  Monika Michałowska

4 Controversy on Infinity between Richard FitzRalph and Richard Kilvington
  Elżbieta Jung

5 Belief and the State of Grace FitzRalph, Wodeham, and Holcot on Faith, Theology, and Merit
  Severin V. Kitanov and John T. Slotemaker

6 Richard FitzRalph vs William Skelton, 1331–1332 The Attribution of the “Determinationes” in a Florence Manuscript
  Christoper Schabel

7 Richard FitzRalph and Future Contingents
  Jean-François Genest

Part 2
Influences and Reactions
8 Bishop Grandisson of Exeter, Richard FitzRalph’s Patron The Ideology of a Régime and Its Significance for FitzRalph’s Intellectual Biography
  Michael Haren

9 Richard FitzRalph and the Friars Emergence and Course of the Conflict
  Michael Haren

10 Wyclif, the Lollards, the Middle English Tradition
  Bridget Riley

11 Dominium FitzRalph at Basel
  Stephen Lahey

12 The Continental Reception of FitzRalph’s Philosophical Theology until the Council of Florence
  Christoper Schabel

13 Views from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
  Simon Nolan

Appendix 1 Manuscripts and Table of Quaestiones of the Lectura in Sententias

Bibliography

Indices

Historians, students of medieval thought, theologians as well as those in the field of Irish and British studies. Keywords: Oxford theology, 14th-century thought, commentaries on the Sentences, poverty controversy, antifraternalism, medieval sermons, medieval episcopacy, Irish Pale, Anglo-Irish in the fourteenth century, Augustinianism, medieval understanding of work, Greek Church, Armenian Church, Papal Court at Avignon, beatific vision.
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