tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post9115091502406359637..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: New Eckhart EditionLee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-42029486995925960492014-09-11T06:47:23.042-04:002014-09-11T06:47:23.042-04:00Disgraceful. Oliver Davies has NO QUALIFICATIONS i...Disgraceful. Oliver Davies has NO QUALIFICATIONS in theology at all, yet he's been made a professor at KCL. he is trained in literature, which is easy compared to scholastic theology. <br />Meister Eckhart is just about the only theologian he has ever written on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-88560366429987657212013-11-17T21:40:09.049-05:002013-11-17T21:40:09.049-05:00I see. So it's really a Vat. lat. 1086 project...I see. So it's really a Vat. lat. 1086 project with Eckhart as the bait. Fair enough.<br /><br />I was excited to see one of their post-docs is working on James of Ascoli; maybe an edition of the quodlibet will come out of the project as well.<br /><br />Also, I was impressed that the goal of the project was an actual book(s), rather than a conference.Lee Faberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-52051520308854507012013-11-17T14:19:03.284-05:002013-11-17T14:19:03.284-05:00The key is Vat. Lat. 1086. Prosper of Reggio Emili...The key is Vat. Lat. 1086. Prosper of Reggio Emilia was an OESA theologian at Paris from ca. 1309-1318. He was present at many disputations in the period, took notes, and transcribed them from (probably) paper to parchment quires, along with other questions that interested him. This is his Liber Recollectorum, and it was famous already in his lifetime (I think there's a 1319 or 1320 OESA Chapter General meeting that actually refers to it). Glorieux has a famous article on it. Bill Courtenay gives a list of the masters who appear in it in an chapter of Schabel's 2006 Quodlibeta volume (although rumor has it that the team working on 1086 has made some revisions/corrections to authorship).<br />Anyway, most of the questions are quite short, and so it doesn't surprise me that they'd get the Meister Eckhart stuff out of the way in a few months. Bertrand de la Tour is edited in a couple footnotes in that same Quodlibeta volume.<br /><br />The manuscript is far more important than just Meister Eckhart, but it is clear that it would be interesting to those trying to reconstruct the intellectual life of the faculty of theology at Paris at this time. It's also clear that it's not easy to convince non-experts of its importance without a "big name" attached. There's no Scotus in the VL 1086, which explains why he's not mentioned in their presentation.<br /><br />That said, their list of names is rather weird, and whoever wrote it seems to have a thing for Gregory of Lucca.Bubbanoreply@blogger.com