The Companion to Bonaventure provides an invaluable guide to understanding this great 13th century scholastic luminary. Together the essays will deliver a critical overview of the current research, the major themes in Bonaventure's life and writings, and how they are being reint…
This volume, Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography , which celebrates the life and legacy of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, is comprised of articles written by colleagues, former students, and associates. The authors were invited to contribute th…
This dissertation examines the noetics of several early thirteenth-century Latin Augustinian thinkers, who first received Aristotle's noetic from the Arabs, examining in detail the early Latin reception of Aristotelian proposal that human thought is caused by the 'agent intellec…
In Thirteenth-Century Europe, members of many elites sought to exalt their status and claim social supremacy for their group. Theologians staked their claim by asserting their intellectual field of expertise was both the highest and the broadest. Often, the beatific vision playe…