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Mediaeval Studies

January 1986

Gawain on Marriage: The Textual Tradition of the De coniuge non ducenda

Studies and Texts 79. 1986. xii, 104 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–079–2

The De coniuge non ducenda (composed ca. 1225–1250) was one of the most popular antimatrimonial satires of the later Middle Ages. It is a cheerful poem and not very serious. Its protagonist is the Arthurian hero Gawain, who was known not only for valour but also for unfortunate entanglements with women. He is planning to marry, but three “angels,” Peter of Corbeil, Lawrence of Durham and John Chrysostom (representing a trinity of Power, Wisdom and Grace), set out to dissuade him. Their arguments are drawn partly from traditional antifeminist satire and biblical proverbs, but they stress not the obstacles that marriage poses to the scholar or cleric but the disadvantages for the ordinary working man.

January 1986

Miracles of the Virgin Mary, in Verse. Miracula sancte Dei genitricis virginis Marie, versifice

Edited by Jan Ziolkowski. TMLT 17. 1986. x, 101 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–467–7 • $17.95

January 1986

The Division and Methods of the Sciences

Translated with introduction and notes by Armand Maurer. Fourth revised edition. MST 3. 1986. xlii, 119 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–279–6 • $12.95

Questions v and vi of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius contain St. Thomas’ most comprehensive treatment of the classification of the theoretical sciences and description of their methods. They examine the meaning of knowledge and science, the distinction between practical and theoretical science, and the modes of procedure of the three main theoretical sciences: physics, mathematics and metaphysics. They also clarify the nature of an “intermediate science” (scientia media) partaking of both physics and mathematics.

January 1985

Alahan: An Early Christian Monastery in Southern Turkey

Based on the work of Michael Gough. ST 73. 1985. xviii, 235 pp.; 3 maps, 71 figures, 89 plates. ISBN 978–0–88844–073–0 • $55.95

January 1985

The Fairs of Medieval England: An Introductory Study

ST 72. 1985. xii, 401 pp.; maps, plate. ISBN 978–0–88844–072–3 • $84.95

January 1985

The Fall of Man. De spiritalis historiae gestis libri i–iii

Edited by Daniel J. Nodes. TMLT 16. 1985. viii, 71 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–466–0 • $17.95

January 1985

The Rise of British Logic. Acts of the Sixth European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics (Oxford, 1983)

PMS 7. 1985. xii, 421 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–807–1 • $69.95

January 1984

Biblical and Liturgical Symbols within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis

ST 71. 1984. xii, 177 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–071–6 • $39.95

January 1984

Etienne Gilson

Etienne Gilson Series 6. 1984. x, 412 pp. ISBN ISBN 978–0–88844–706–7 • $84.95

This biography is the story of the distinguished Christian philosopher Etienne Gilson (1884–1978) based on a large collection of privileged correspondence, documents and personal recollections. It presents not only his immensely productive life as a writer, teacher and lecturer in France and North America but also something of the substance, nature and originality of his thought.

January 1984

La Vengeance de Nostre-Seigneur: The Old and Middle French Prose Versions: The Version of Japheth

ST 63. 1984. viii, 232 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–063–1 • $49.95

January 1984

Logos Islamikos, Studia Islamica in Honorem Georgii Michaelis Wickens

PMS 6. 1984. x, 351 pp.; plate. ISBN 978–0–88844–806–4 • $54.95

January 1984

Remarks and Admonitions, Part One: Logic

Translated by Shams C. Inati. MST 28. 1984. xiv, 165 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–277–2 • $17.95 

January 1984

Simon of Faversham. Quaestiones super libro elenchorum

ST 60. 1984. xiv, 270 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–060–0 • $59.95

January 1984

Templum Dei

Edited from MS 27 of Emmanuel College, Cambridge by Joseph Goering and F.A.C. Mantello. TMLT 14. 1984. viii, 92 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–464–6 • $17.95

January 1984

The Church in Late Medieval Norwich, 1370–1532

ST 66. 1984. xviii, 279 pp.; maps. ISBN 978–0–88844–066–2 • $59.95

January 1984

The Dialogues of Gregory the Great in Their Late Antique Cultural Background

ST 69. 1984. xxiv, 227 pp.; maps. ISBN 978–0–88844–069–3 • $54.95

January 1984

The Old French Évangile de l’Enfance

An edition with introduction and notes. ST 70. 1984. x, 117 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–070–9 • $24.95

January 1984

The Oxford Poems of Hugh Primas and the Arundel Lyrics

Edited by C.J. McDonough. TMLT 15. 1984. x, 134 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–465–3 • $17.95

January 1983

Germanic Kinship Structure: Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

ST 65. 1983. xii, 256 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–065–5 • $54.95

January 1983

Graceful Reason. Essays in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Presented to Joseph Owens, CSSR

PMS 4. 1983. xiv, 447 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–804–0 • $69.95