Guy de l‘Aumône‘s ‘Summa de diversis questionibus theologie’
In 1256 Guy de l'Aumône became the first Cistercian master of theology at the University of Paris. Very little is thought to survive of his magisterial activities. Only his Summa … de diversis questionibus theologie has been seen as a series of ordinary disputed questions. This, however, has be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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Cambridge University Press
1988
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Traditio
Year: 1988, Volume: 44, Pages: 275-323 |
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| Summary: | In 1256 Guy de l'Aumône became the first Cistercian master of theology at the University of Paris. Very little is thought to survive of his magisterial activities. Only his Summa … de diversis questionibus theologie has been seen as a series of ordinary disputed questions. This, however, has been enough to lead some historians to attribute certain original views to Guy. Above all, Guy is supposed to have had a distinctive belief in the precepts of the Old and New Testaments as absolute, which resulted in a desire to produce work based purely on Scripture. Unfortunately this interpretation rests on mistaken assumptions about the nature of the Summa, in particular a willingness to accept its structure at face value. In fact this structure was imposed on several distinct blocks of material which reflect different types of magisterial activity. A greater range of Guy's work is thus available to the historian than hitherto imagined. This makes possible a more balanced assessment of what Guy thought and the kind of work he was engaged in. It also reveals more about the milieu in which he worked, especially the use to which the Halesian Summa was put and attitudes towards different kinds of university exercise. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S036215290000708X |