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Mediaeval Studies

December 2017

Simon of Tournai, On the Incarnation of Christ: Institutiones in sacram paginam 7.1–67

Studies and Texts 211, Mediaeval Law and Theology 9. 2017. xiv + 188 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-211-6 • Cloth • $80

Simon of Tournai was a theological master who flourished in the Paris of the 1160s and enjoyed considerable renown. Composed between 1160 and 1165, Simon’s Institutiones in sacram paginam is among the earliest treatments of the Incarnation after the Sentences of Peter Lombard (ca. 1157/8). In it, Simon provided precise and lucid treatments of fundamental topics regarding the person of the incarnate Christ. Indeed, the Institutiones has proved an important witness to the development of Christology in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and had a strong and lasting influence on the theology of the Middle Ages.

February 2016

Peter Lombard and His Students

Studies and Texts 201; Mediaeval Law and Theology 8. xii, 302 pp. 2016. ISBN 978-0-88844-201-7 • Cloth • $90

Peter Lombard is best known for his groundbreaking theological work, the Sentences. But the exclusive focus on this work has tended to divert attention away from other aspects of his life and work. This book therefore takes a broadly biographical approach to Peter Lombard, examining him in relation to his environment and milieu.

January 2016

Christ's Two Wills in Scholastic Thought: The Christology of Aquinas and Its Historical Contexts

ST 178; Mediaeval Law and Theology 5. 2012. viii, 358 pp.

New in Paperback (2016): ISBN 978-0-88844-424-0 • $45.00
Casebound: ISBN 978-0-88844-178-2 • $85.00

This book investigates scholastic discussions of Christ's wills from Anselm of Canterbury to John Duns Scotus, concentrating on Thomas Aquinas.

October 2015

The Making of the Historia scholastica, 1150–1200

Studies and Texts 198; Mediaeval Law and Theology 7. xvi + 322 pp. • 2015 • ISBN 978-0-88844-198-0 • Cloth • $95

In the theological landscape of the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Peter Comestor’s Historia scholastica stands out as a conspicuous yet strangely overlooked landmark. Like the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the History towers over the early scholastic period, and it was the extraordinary success of these twin towers that ensured the joint ascendancy of the reputations of the two masters. Indeed, we find one medieval writer after another testifying to the greatness of the man whose nickname had become synonymous with a voracious appetite for knowledge, and the encyclopedic work whose extraordinary dissemination and influence over several centuries made it the medieval popular Bible.

September 2013

The Collectio Burdegalensis: A Study and Register of an Eleventh-Century Canon Law Collection

Studies and Texts 185; Mediaeval Law and Theology 6. 2013. xiv, 248 pp.
ISBN 978–0–88844–185–0 • Cloth • $95.00

This book offers a study and register of the French canon law collection known as the Collectio Burdegalensis. Considerable attention is devoted to the compiler's use and organisation of legal sources, and a rich historical background of church reform in late eleventh-century Aquitaine is provided. By examining when, where, by whom, and how this collection was made, the study re-evaluates its place and value among other legal collections of the period.

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November 2011

Odiosa sanctitas: St Peter Damian, Simony, and Reform

ST 177; Mediaeval Law and Theology 4. 2011. xii, 322 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–177–5 • $85.00

September 2010

Radulphus Ardens. The Questions on the Sacraments: Speculum uniuersale 8.31–92

ST 171; Mediaeval Law and Theology 3. 2010. viii, 296 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978–0–88844–171–3 • $95.00

April 2009

Sex and the New Medieval Literature of Confession, 1150–1300

ST 163; Mediaeval Law and Theology 1. 2009. x, 249 pp. Casebound. ISBN 978–0–88844–163–8 • $75.00