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This work documents the development of scholastic argumentation in 13th century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination.
This work documents the development of scholastic argumentation in 13th century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination.
As the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge of feudal and private law in the French kingdom. Frequently cited by legal histo…
This dissertation examines how the counts of Champagne in northeastern France simultaneously ruled Champagne and the Iberian kingdom of Navarre from 1234 to 1274. Count Thibaut IV of Champagne (r. 1201-1253) inherited Navarre when his maternal uncle, King Sancho VII (r. 1194-123…
Many studies of the chant of the Cistercian order have focused on the order’s early roots in twelfth-century France. This study instead considers their activities in the thirteenth century in the area around the diocese of Liège, where Cistercians were instrumental in promoting …
In a time of multiplying histories and changing perceptions of geography, my dissertation looks to revise prevailing conceptions of medieval space. It does so by challenging the consensus view that medieval maps of the world, or mappaemundi, have primarily a 'theological functio…
This study is an analysis of relations between Christians and non-Christians (Jews, Muslims and the pagan Cumans) in the thirteenth-century frontier kingdom of Hungary. Thirteenth-century Hungary was both an area of recent Christianization and a meeting-point of two frontiers, w…
The thirteenth-century missionary effort of the Order of Preachers to convert Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians has been viewed by scholars as a manifestation of a “persecuting society.” Jeremy Cohen argues that the mendicants, under the direction of Friar Raymond of Peñafo…
This dissertation examines two works of Robert Grosseteste (c. 1169–1253), his astronomical textbook, the De spera, and his computistical work, the Compotus correctorius. Through the use of a technique labelled exposition, the texts are presented to the reader through a means th…
In Spain, science, history and law began to be written in Romance in the 13th century. At this time, and corresponding to a new interest in the dissemination of the medieval sciences, a need arose to transmit a way of understanding man and creation that integrated practical wisd…
This dissertation questions the notion of miscellany as it is applied to compilations from the high Middle Ages. My intention is twofold: to show how the interpretation of a medieval text can change when it is studied in conjunction with other texts bound in the same manuscript …
This dissertation draws upon unpublished testimonies collected over two hundred and one days (between the first of May 1245 and the first of August 1246 beneath the great basilica of Saint-Sernin at Toulouse) that five thousand four hundred and seventy-one men and women gave bef…
Though students of Scholasticism have described in impressive detail the reception of Aristotle during the High Middle Ages, they have practically left the Secretum secretorum out of account. Given that the Secretum is not a formal work of philosophy but rather a letter of advic…