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The volume contains a critical edition of 26 questions (no.75-97, 204, 217-218, 222), mostly concerning the concept of charity or love (caritas). It is part of the Quaestiones Theologiae corpus, the chief speculative work of Stephen Langton, later Archbishop of Canterbury, preceded by an extensive study of Langton's theories of love and fear.

This is the first great commentary in the Western European tradition of expounding Aristotle's Metaphysics. Rufus addresses questions such as 'what is truth?' `what is matter?', 'what are numbers?', `how do corruptible and incorruptible substances differ?', and `how do sensible objects act on the soul?'.

This volume introduces the career and legacy of Stephen Langton, known for his role as Archbishop of Canterbury in securing the Magna Carta. It shows that his influence as arguably the leading Parisian master of his time has been misunderstood and undervalued.

The book focuses on the teaching of Adam of Bockenfield, a key figure in the history of the introduction of Aristotle's natural philosophy in England. It offers an edition of three early Latin commentaries on the tract On memory and recollection, all of them produced in the nascent Faculty of Arts at the University of Oxford.

The volume contains a critical edition of 24 disputed questions on Christology and faith. It is part of the Quaestiones Theologiae corpus, which is the chief speculative work of Stephen Langton, later Archbishop of Canterbury. The edition is preceded by an extensive study of Langton's Christology and his views on faith.

This is the first critical edition of the most important political text by William of Ockham, a significant and influential fourteenth century British philosopher.

This volume is a continuation of Robert Greystones on the Freedom of the Will: Selections from His Commentary on the Sentences. From this, five of the most relevant questions were selected for editing and translation in this timely volume. This edition should prompt not just a footnote to, but a re-writing of the history of philosophy.

The book provides the first critical edition of the Dialogus written in Latin by William of Ockham in the 14th century. The dialogue is Ockham's chief work on political philosophy which engages with questions of property rights, natural law, and the theory of nation-states.

This is the first commentary in the Western tradition on Aristotle's On the Soul, dated about 1235. It therefore predates that of Thomas Aquinas by about 35 years and its publication in this new critical edition will prompt a re-evaluation of Aquinas's theory of the soul. This is the first complete edition of a work that disappeared from the historical record 700 years ago.

This new edition of Bacon's Compendium of the Study of Philosophy, with facing English translation, enables today's readers to engage with Bacon's philosophy. It provides a window on academic life in Oxford and Paris of the 1270s at an important time in the development of the universities of both cities.

Critical edition of De scientia Dei by John Wyclif, one of the most brilliant teachers at Oxford after the Great Death. The tract deals with important theological questions about God's knowledge and human free will. A detailed introduction contextualises the tract within Wyclif's own theological and philosophical development.

Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation.

Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation.

The Abstractiones is of great historical interest because it gives a window onto how generations of British scholars learned a uniform approach to logic and reasoning from basics up to more sophisticated strategies in modal logic and quantification. It gives a systematic introduction to the techniques and terminology found in medieval philosophy.

This book contains new critical editions of the Latin texts of Robert Grosseteste's 13th century treatise on free will, De libero arbitrio, with complete English translations. Included is a substantial study of the texts, their place in Grosseteste's body of works, doctrinal content, employment by later thinkers, and manuscript sources.

What is human freedom? By addressing a number of theological 'limit situations', Robert Greystones, while at Oxford University in the 1320s, developed his own philosophical theory. This volume is the first Latin critical edition, with a clear English translation. There is an extensive introduction describing his life and teaching on human freedom.

Kilwardby's commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics was written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered. This edition in two volumes makes Kilwardby's Latin text available together with an English translation.

Kilwardby's commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics was written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered. This edition in two volumes makes Kilwardby's Latin text available together with an English translation.

John Blund's Treatise on the Soul is probably the earliest text of its kind: a witness to the first reception of Greek and Arabic psychology at Oxford and foundation for a new area of medieval philosophical speculation. This book contains Hunt's Latin edition with a new English translation and a new introduction to the text by Michael Dunne.

Stephen Langton was the most prolific of the theologians teaching at Paris around 1200. The Quaestiones Theologiae are based on disputations led by Langton in front of his learned audience and circulated in manuscript form. This is the first printed edition and contains critical apparatus, source notes, and a philological introduction.

One of the first to teach the new Aristotle, Richard Rufus of Cornwall here presents exciting accounts of divisibility, growth, and Aristotelian mixture which transform our understanding of the introduction of Aristotelian natural philosophy to the West and provide insight into the early history and prehistory of chemistry.

In his Dialogus William of Ockham (c. 1285 to 1347/8) turned from pure philosophy and theology to polemic, in the form of a dialogue between a student and a university master. In Parts 2 and 3, reproduced here, they debate the extent of the Pope's power within the church.

Thomas Wylton's Quaestio de anima intellectiva presents a controversial defence of Averroes' interpretation of Aristotelian psychology. The detailed introduction guides the reader through the transmission of the text, as well as the philosophical contents of one of the most significant medieval treatments of the nature of the soul.

This volume completes the first full critical edition of the later work of the medieval philosopher and theologian Henry of Harclay, together with an English translation prepared in collaboration with Raymond Edwards. Questions 1-14 were published as volume XVII in the Auctores series.