Ockham and Ockhamism

by Courtenay, William J.

• ISBN13: 9789004168305
• ISBN10: 9004168303
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockham's thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris around 1340, and the legacy of Ockhamist thought into the sixteenth century.

Author Biography

William J. Courtenay is C. H. Haskins Professor of Medical History and Hilldale Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

In search of nominalism : two centuries of historical debate	p. 1
Before Ockham
Augustine and nominalism	p. 23
On the eve of nominalism : consignification in Anselm	p. 31
Nominales and nominalism in the twelfth century	p. 39
Nominales and rules of inference	p. 81
England and Wales
The academic and intellectual worlds of Ockham	p. 91
The reception of Ockham's thought in fourteenth-century England	p. 107
The reception of Ockham's thought at the University of Paris	p. 127
The crisis over Ockham's thought at Paris
Ockham, Ockhamists, and the English-German nation at Paris, 1339-1341	p. 157
Force of words and figures of speech : the crisis over Virtus sermonis in the fourteenth century	p. 209
The registers of the University of Paris and the statutes against the Scientia Occamica	p. 229
The debate over Ockham's physical theories at Paris	p. 267
The Quaestiones in Sententias of Michael de Massa, OESA : a redating	p. 285
Conrad of Megenberg : the Parisian years	p. 303
The categories, Michael de Massa, and natural philosophy at Paris, 1335-1340	p. 329
Aftermath
Ockhamism among the Augustinians : the case of Adam Wodeham	p. 349
Theologia Anglicana Modernorum at Cologne in the fourteenth century	p. 359
Was there an Ockhamist school?	p. 371
List of manuscripts cited	p. 403
Index of ancient and medieval names	p. 407
Index of modern names	p. 415
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