Augustinian Theology in the Later Middle Ages

Volume 1: Concepts, Perspectives, and the Emergence of Augustinian Identity

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The culmination of thirty years of research, Eric Leland Saak’s Augustinian Theology in the Later Middle Ages offers a comprehensive, new interpretation of late medieval Augustinianism. The first of a two-volume work, the present book sets the stage and analyzes the conceptual and methodological structures requisite for interpreting the reception of Augustine in the later Middle Ages historically, together with explicating the first two of the four “pillars” of Augustinian theology: the Augustinian Hermits’ political theology; the teaching in the Order’s schools; the Order’s university theology; and its moral theology. Holistically fused with the Order’s religious identity, these distinct yet interconnected components of Augustinian theology, rather than a narrow, theologically defined anti-Pelagianism, provided the context for the emergence of the Reformation.
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Eric Leland Saak, PhD (1993, University of Arizona) is Professor of History at Indiana University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has published widely on the late medieval Augustinian tradition, including High Way to Heaven (Brill, 2002), Creating Augustine (Oxford, 2012), and Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2017).
Preface

List of Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction
  1 Augustine and Augustinianism

  2 Reception, Influence, and Impact

  3 Causation and Periodization

  4 Definitions

  5 Scholasticism, Scholastic Literature, and the Augustinians
  5.1 Lectures on the Sentences and the Augustinian Magistri

  5.2 The Appropriation of Augustine


  6 Scope of Study


part 1
Augustinian Traditions
1 The Reception of Augustine
 1 In the Wake of Lombard
 1.1 Helinand

 1.2 Grosseteste

 1.3 Considerations


 2 Petrarch
 2.1 John of Wales, ofm and Jacques Legrand, oesa

 2.2 Petrarch’s Fictionalizing

 2.3 Petrarch’s Augustine
 2.3.1 De Vita Solitaria

 2.3.2 De Otio Religioso

 2.3.3 Secretum


 2.4 The Disappropriation of Augustine


 3 Boundaries of the Augustinian


2 The Religio Augustini
 1 In Search of Origins
 1.1 Augustine’s Monasticism

 1.2 The oesa as Institution

 1.3 The Formation of the oesa

 1.4 Origins and Identity


 2 The Daily Life of the Augustinians


part 2
Augustinian Political Theology
3 Giles of Rome
 1 Brother Giles

 2 Giles’s Use of Augustine
 2.1 De Regimine Principum

 2.2 The Turning Point: De Renuntiatione Pape

 2.3 De Ecclesiastica Potestate


 3 Giles’s Political Theology
 3.1 De Renuntiatione Pape
 3.1.1 Potestas Ordinis

 3.1.2 Potestas Jurisdictionis

 3.1.3 Potestas Pape


 3.2 De Ecclesiastica Potestate
 3.2.1 Power

 3.2.2 Status and Order

 3.2.3 Jurisdiction

 3.2.4 Salvation


 4 Towards an Augustinian Ideology


4 James of Viterbo
 1 Brother James

 2 James’ Use of Augustine

 3 De Regimine Christiano

 4 Dating and Context

 5 James in Paris

 6 James and Giles

 7 James’ Political Augustinianism


5 Augustinus of Ancona
 1 Brother Augustinus

 2 Augustinus’ Use of Augustine

 3 Unam Sanctam and the Emergence of Ecclesiology

 4 Summa de Potestate Ecclesiastica
 4.1 The Power of Jurisdiction

 4.2 Christian Perfection
 4.2.1 The Perfection of the Pope

 4.2.2 The Religio Augustini


 5 Ideology, Identity, and Impact


part 3
Augustinian Theology in the Studia
6 Henry of Friemar
 1 Brother Henry

 2 Theological Production
 2.1 Questio de Quolibet

 2.2 De Decem Preceptis

 2.3 De Quattuor Instinctibus


7 Hermann of Schildesche
 1 Brother Hermann

 2 Theological Production
 2.1 Tractatus Contra Haereticos Negantes Immunitatem et Iurisdictionem Sanctae Ecclesiae
 2.1.1 The Ecclesiology of Marsilius of Padua

 2.1.2 Hermann’s Response
 2.1.2.1 Causation

 2.1.2.2 Authority

 2.1.2.3 The Relationship between the Temporal and the Eternal

 2.1.2.4 The Structures of Society


 2.2 Tractatus de Conceptione Gloriosae Virginis Mariae

 2.3 Speculum Manuale Sacerdotum


8 Jordan of Quedlinburg
 1 Brother Jordan

 2 Theological Production
 2.1 Jordan’s Expositio Orationis Dominice

 2.2 Jordan’s Opus Postillarum

 2.3 Jordan’s Opus Dan


  Intermission


Bibliography

Index

All interested in the reception of Augustine, late medieval religious and intellectual history, the history of theology, and the origins of the Reformation. Keywords: Augustine of Hippo, Order of Hermits of St. Augustine (OESA), Jordan of Quedlinburg, Giles of Rome, Petrarch, Martin Luther, 1250–1500 CE, A. Damasus Trapp, Adolar Zumkeller, Papal Hierocratic theory, political theology, religious identity, Historical Method, Augustinian tradition, Augustinianism.
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