PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

January 1975

Isagoge

Translation, introduction and notes by Edward W. Warren. MST 16. 1975. 65 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–265–9 • $11.50

Porphyry’s Isagoge, or Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle, has exercised an amazing influence on the course of Western philosophy. A brief, modest work, designed to help a Roman senator grapple with Aristotle’s difficult concepts, the Isagoge became the first text that any aspiring philosopher confronted in his formal education; logic was the foundation of philosophical training and the Isagoge was the introduction to logic.

January 1975

Philip the Chancellor’s Theology of the Hypostatic Union

Studies and Texts 32. 1975. 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-032-7

For the theology of the Hypostatic Union (the union of the Son of God with the human form), the early thirteenth century was decisive, because in that period theologians resolved debates about three opinions on the subject that had divided earlier schoolmen. This volume examines the thought of Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1170–1236).

January 1975

The Life of Cola Di Rienzo

MST 18. 1975. 166 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–267–3 • $14.95

The Life of Cola di Rienzo is an anonymous eye-witness biography of Cola di Rienzo, a romantic visionary who led a popular revolution against the rapacious and tyrannical barons of medieval Rome. It vividly describes Cola’s brief, tragi-comic reign as “Tribune” of a “restored Roman republic” in 1347, his subsequent pilgrimage to the imperial court at Prague and the papal court at Avignon, his return to Rome as Papal Senator in 1354, and his gruesome death at the hands of a Roman mob two months after his restoration.

January 1975

Two Alcuin Letter-Books

TMLT 5. 1975. viii, 84 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–454–7 • $19.95

January 1974

Parisian Questions and Prologues

Translated with an introduction and notes by Armand A. Maurer. MST 15. 1974. 123 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–264–2 • $9.95

January 1974

Selected Letters

Edited by Janet Martin in collaboration with Giles Constable. TMLT 3. 1974. viii, 107 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–452–3 • $19.95

January 1973

Anticlaudianus or The Good and Perfect Man

Translation and commentary by James J. Sheridan. MST 14. 1973. 251 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–263–5 • $16.95

January 1973

Book Without a Name

A translation by Norman P. Zacour of the Liber sine nomine. MST 11. 1973. 128 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–260–4 • $12.95

January 1973

The Gospel of Nicodemus. Gesta Salvatoris

TMLT 2. 1973. x, 54 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–451–6 • $19.95

January 1972

L’Objet de la Métaphysique selon Aristote

Second edition. PIEM 16. 1972. xx, 198 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–503–2 • $34.95

January 1972

The Book of the Covenant

Translated by Frank Talmage. MST 12. 1972. 88 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–261–1 • $9.95

January 1972

Three Lives of English Saints

TMLT 1. 1972. x, 94 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–450–9 • $19.95 

January 1971

On Royal and Papal Power

Translated with an introduction by J.A. Watt. MST 9. 1971. 261 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–258–1 • $15.95

January 1971

Robert of Flamborough, Liber poenitentialis

Studies and Texts 18. 1971. xxx, 364 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-018-1 • $79.95

A critical edition of a manual of instruction for confessors is a useful instrument for research into the religious, moral and social climate of life in the Church. The Liber poenitentialis of Robert of Flamborough is particularly important in this regard. For it was through this work that the new, formal, “scientific” canon law, which had been developed during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, first became available to the ordinary confessor and so began to influence the consciences of individuals in a new, very effective way. The consequences of this will merit much study and investigation; it is hoped that the present edition will prove to be an aid for research of this kind.

January 1970

Hugh of Saint-Cher’s Theology of the Hypostatic Union

Studies and Texts 19. 1970. 265 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-019-8

For the theology of the Hypostatic Union (the union of the Son of God with the human form), the early thirteenth century was decisive, because in that period theologians resolved debates about three opinions on the subject that had divided earlier schoolmen. This volume examines the thought of Hugh of Saint-Cher (ca. 1190-1263).

January 1969

The Scholar’s Guide

A translation by Joseph R. Jones and John E. Keller of the twelfth-century Disciplina clericalis. MST 8. 1969. 117 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–257–4 • $9.95

January 1968

Études d'histoire littéraire et doctrinale. 4th series

PIEM 19. 1968. 284 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–507–0 • $44.95

January 1968

La Psychologie de Gonsalve d’Espagne

PIEM 21. 1968. 207 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–516–2 • $34.95

January 1968

On Being and Essence

Translated with an introduction and notes by Armand Maurer. Second revised edition. MST 1. 1968. 79 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–250–5 • $12.50

Thomas’ short treatise De ente et essentia (On Being and Essence) is a classic text on the meaning and mystery of being. One of his early works, it was written before Thomas became Master of Theology at Paris in March 1256, and thus does not contain the architectonic metaphysical and theological structures of the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra Gentiles.

January 1968

Richard of Campsall. Works I: Questiones super librum priorum analeticorum

Studies and Texts 17. 1968. 326 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–017–4 • $64.95

This volume contains the Latin text of Richard of Campsall’s Questiones super librum priorum analeticorum from the single manuscript copy, as well as an informative and well-written introduction. Richard, cleric of the archdiocese of York and master of theology, fellow of Balliol and later fellow of Merton College, died somewhere around 1350/1360. The questions, probably written before 1306, concentrated on three basic themes: syllogism, conversion, and consequences. The treatise demonstrates the state of logic at Oxford in the first decades of the fourteenth century.