Quaestiones in librum tertium Sententiarum. Robert Kilwardby , Elisabeth Gössmann

Speculum ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1064-1066
Author(s):  
P. Osmund Lewry
Keyword(s):  
Robert Kilwardby

Richard Knapwell

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Substantial Form ◽  
Robert Kilwardby

The English Dominican friar and theologian Richard Knapwell (Clapwell) (fl. 1284–1286) is best known as an early defender of Thomas Aquinas. He was the first to respond to William de la Mare’s Correctorium fratris Thomae (Correction of Brother Thomas), a Franciscan attack consisting of 117 articles identifying purported errors drawn from several of Aquinas’s major writings. Knapwell’s detailed riposte, composed in the early 1280s, was the earliest and most extensive of a series of polemical Correctoria corruptorii fratris Thomae (Corrections of the Corruptor of Brother Thomas) that would appear, and Knapwell’s contribution is known as the Correctorium “Quare.” Knapwell’s commitment to Aquinas’s writings, however, was not fully evident in his earlier work, as Knapwell had lectured on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard at Oxford sometime between 1269 and 1277, and his surviving notes or Notabilia exhibit an admixture of views taken from Aquinas and Augustine. After writing the Correctorium “Quare,” Knapwell incepted as a master in theology at Oxford in 1284–1285, and not long afterward he produced the De unitate formae (On the unity of form), a disputed question that brought about his condemnation. In that work, Knapwell asserted the theological neutrality of the Aristotelian metaphysical thesis that there is a single substantial form in human beings. The unity of form thesis was opposed by those who posited a plurality of forms, believing that the unity of form thesis was incompatible with a host of theological issues such as whether Christ’s body in the tomb was numerically identical with the body of the living Christ. In October 1284 the Franciscan archbishop of Canterbury John Pecham had renewed the prohibitions of 1277 concerning the unity of form thesis previously set by his Dominican predecessor, Robert Kilwardby. On the basis of Knapwell’s defense of the unity of form in De unitate formae, Pecham excommunicated Knapwell in April 1286. Knapwell traveled to Rome to argue his case before the pope, but the newly elected Franciscan pontiff Nicholas IV responded by silencing him in 1288. Nothing definite is known about his later activities. The extant works of Knapwell (beyond the abovementioned Notabilia, Correctorium “Quare,” and De unitate formae) include six additional disputed questions that pertain mostly to issues of human and divine cognition, and one short Quodlibet of twenty-nine questions on a variety of topics.

The De Ortu Scientiarum of Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279)

1934 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Sharp ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Robert Kilwardby

scholarly journals Demonstrability of Categories: the viae divisivae and their criticisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 51-75
Author(s):  
Mário João Correia
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Albert The Great ◽  
Robert Kilwardby

From an early stage, the Aristotelian list of ten categories was seen with suspicion. Authors discussed not only the scope of the list - expressions, concepts, realities -, but also its alleged arbitrariness. One of the attempts to give an account of the completeness and sufficiency of the Aristotelian categories was inspired by a passage in Aristotle’s Topics: a via divisiva, in a shape of a tree, which covers all the possibilities. At least since Porphyry, several authors applied this scheme to the ten categories. With this work, I intend to present some of the viae divisivae created by 13th century authors, i.e., Robert Kilwardby, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. In a second moment, I will give an account about Duns Scotus’ critique to this kind of procedure. According to Scotus, theviae divisivae do the opposite of what is intended.

Olga Weijers, A Scholar’s Paradise. Teaching and Debating in Medieval Paris (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 257 pp. ISBN: 9782503554631

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Courtenay
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Administrative Structure ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Robert Kilwardby ◽  
Detailed Picture

This chapter reviews the book A Scholar’s Paradise. Teaching and Debating in Medieval Paris (2015), by Olga Weijers. The book provides a detailed picture of the origins, structure, and development of the academic community in Paris in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on the faculty of arts. It consists of fifteen chapters covering topics such as the administrative structure and curriculum of the various faculties; the classification of knowledge, the branches of learning, and the content of teaching in the various disciplines; methods of teaching and the skills of analysis and argumentation; the lectio and the questio; and the different types of disputation. Weijers also examines academic ceremonies and events and presents a biography of a scholarly career in the thirteenth century, using that of Robert Kilwardby.

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