The Smithy

A mediaevalist trying to be a philosopher and a philosopher trying to be a mediaevalist write about theology, philosophy, scholarship, books, the middle ages, and especially the life, times, and thought of the Doctor Subtilis, the Blessed John Duns Scotus.

Friday, June 27, 2008

The Remnant Church

Here's a bit that might please Protestants in some ways if not in others: Nihilominus tamen verum est quod sacramentum Baptismi prodest ...

Monday, June 23, 2008

Gonsalvus Redivivus!

In the fourteenth century, at least. This is for Michael, a quote from Petrus Thomae's Quodlibet q.3 from a question about whether ite...

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Additio auctoris incerti

The following 'addition of uncertain authorship' on the essential unity of spiritual and corporeal matter is appended to Distinction...

Monday, June 16, 2008

Matter is a Slut

A while back I posted the following excerpt from Chaucer, with comment: To Colcos comen is this duc Jasoun, That is of love devourer and dra...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Another Scotist Dogma?

I have in mind the constitution Benedictus Deus issued by Benedict XII in 1336. According to the recent book by Avery Cardinal Dulles, this ...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Kristeller Link

I'm pleased to post the link to Kristellers Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600: A List of the Printed Cataogues and Unpublished Invento...

Benefits of Education

I just finished watching, for the first time in many years, the super-awesome Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , as part of a complicated ...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Gregory of Rimini on the Formal Distinction

Here's a bit from Gregory of Rimini, a little comment he makes before he begins to argue against Scotus. It is from his Lectura super Pr...

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Scotistic links

There's a nice summary of various Scotistic ideas over at "A Friars Life". Also, don't forget to to check out Cynthia'...

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Ad nostrum qui

This is mainly a note for Michael, a propos our conversations at various times about Scotus and the "lumen gloriae". I was reading...

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Cartesian Jabs

Here's a bit of Descartes on the scholastics that I came across, again from the objections and replies (GB 31 p.169): "For more cre...

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Duns Scotus the Papalist?

I came across the following quote today, in a discussion of the Joachim of Fiore's criticism of Peter Lombard, to the effect that his vi...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Hilarious Quodlibetal Questions

Here's a few howlers that I've picked up while going through Glorieux for dissertation information. I'll keep updating this as t...

Gonzalve d'Espagne et Duns Scot, "Apogée de l'Ecole Franciscain?""

Nous reprenons cette expression à B. Martel. Elle pourrait être la reproduction d'un regard sur la philosophie du Moyen Age aujourd'...

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

New Bibliography of Scotistic Studies

For those of you doing serious research on Scotus, be sure to check out the bibliography that Tobias Hoffmann has just completed and posted ...

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