Description: Since 1991 the Franciscan Francis of Marchia, master of theology at the University of Paris (fl. 1320), has begun receiving his due attention as an exciting and innovative thinker. This volume examines his doctrines in cosmology, physics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics.
Brief description:
Russell L. Friedman, Ph.D. (1997), Iowa, is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His research and publications deal primarily with later medieval philosophy and theology, especially cognitive theory and trinitarian theology.
Chris Schabel, Ph.D. (1994), Iowa, teaches at the University of Cyprus. Specializing in intellectual history and the Latin East, he recently published Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century (2006) and, with A. Nicolaou-Konnari, Cyprus - Society and Culture 1191-1374 (2005), both with Brill.
Review Quotes: "...Insgesamt wird man den Herausgebern für diesen gelungenen Sammelband dankbar sein, bringt er doch an der Forschungsfront Licht in undeutliche Verhältnisse der geistesgeschichtlichen Entwicklung in der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jhs..."
Francia-Recensio (2008), 4 (http: //hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/ausgabe=4577)
Jürgen Miethke, Universität Heidelberg
"...[O]n ne peut donc que saluer la publication de ce volume spécial de, qui fournit une contribution nouvelle et importante à une meilleure connaissance de François de la Marche, mais aussi, et plus généralement, à celle de la culture philosophique du début du XIVe siècle... [L]es contributions publiées ici élargissent sensiblement notre connaissance de la pensée de François de la Marche, dont elles montrent par ailleurs la valeur incontournable dans la reconstitution du panorama intellectuel de la première moitié du XIVe siècle..."
Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 54.3 (2007), pp. 657-660, T. Suarez-Nani
"...This book is an exemplar of method and erudition in medieval studies and will be of great interest to both specialists and students of scholastic philosophy and theology..."
Religious Studies Review 34.3 (2008), p. 213a-b, S. Kitanov