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HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
This course (given at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Spring 2021) focuses principally on the development of Christian philosophical theology, emphasizing: Patristic Roots (to 1100), Scholastic Synthesis (1200 to 1325), and Nominalist Critique (1325-1450). Attention is also be given to the reception of Greek, Arab and Jewish learning by the medieval west. Anselm of Canterbury, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam receive special attention.
About the Instructor
Very Rev. Augustine Thompson, O.P. is a Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers who is president of the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies (PIMS), an institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages in Toronto, Canada.
Father Thompson has had a distinguished academic career holding senior teaching positions at the University of Oregon and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville), as well as the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. A well-published medieval historian, his many books and articles include most notably Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005). His latest book is Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars (New Priory Press, 2017).