Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th Centuries

918 Pages·2021·2.186 MB·English

by  Lidia Lanza, Marco Toste

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SUMMISTAE
THE COMMENTARY TRADITION ON THOMAS AQUINAS’
SUMMA THEOLOGIAE FROM THE 15TH TO THE 17TH
CENTURIES
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SUMMISTAE
The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’
Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th Centuries Edited by
Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste
LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Contents
Foreword
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Part 1: Framing the Commentary
tradition
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Lidia Lanza (Centre of Philosophy University of Lisbon) – Marco
Toste (Université de Fribourg):
The Commentary Tradition on the ‘Summa Theologiae’
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2.
Monica Brînzei (CNRS–IRHT, Paris) – Chris Schabel (University of
Cyprus):
Thomas Aquinas as Authority and the ‘Summa Theologiae’
as Auctoritas in the Late Middle Ages
95
3.
Ueli Zahnd (Université de Genève):
The Genesis of a Genre? Late Medieval Commentaries on
the ‘Summa Theologiae’
127
4.