Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: The Fourteenth Century

Beginning about 1230, the University of Paris would hold special disputations in which leading theologians would respond to questions from a broad audience de quolilbet, about anything. Over the next century, hundreds of these sessions were recorded on parchment. In the second of two volumes examining the texts (rather than the physical documents), historians and philosophers discuss those by such figures as Peter of Auvergne, John Duns Scotus, Thomas Wylton, and Peter Auriol. They also look at those texts in the collections of canons regular, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinians, Franciscans, and in Oxford. A concluding chapter discusses the demise of the genre. Indexes are included of the manuscripts, the authors, and names and places. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)