Roger Bacon has long been considered one of the shining Aristotelian scholars of the Middle Ages. This translation of his Summulae dialectices shows the depth of Bacon's understanding of Aristotle's d
The principal signs and instruments of grace available to Christians as a result of Christ's redeeming work are the sacraments of the Church - baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme un
This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 1 of Peter Lombard?s Sentences, the work that would win the greatest teacher of the twelfth century a place in Dante
Book 3 of the Sentences deals with the mystery of the Word made flesh: Christ's incarnation, passion, and death, the consequent restoration of humankind, and the virtues to be practised in imitation o
This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 2 of the Sentences. It consists of forty-four Distinctions and contains an introduction to Book 2, a list of the maj
Thomas Hatfield (c. 1310?81) rose to become a valued royal servant under King Edward III. In 1345 he was elected Bishop of Durham, an office he held until his death. As bishop he retained a strong con
This book provides the first translation into English of the Latin biographies of nine holy men and one archangel who became the patron saints of the areas where they evangelized, documenting the conv
William of Auvergne's work on morals (translated by Roland Teske in this second in a series) has been an absorption in the philosophical world since William served as bishop from 1228 to 1249. He used
Preserved in a single manuscript from the abbey library of Bury St Edmunds, and here edited for the first time, Samuel Presbiter's series of short, extensively annotated poems offers a rare record of
Roger Bacon's Opus maius represents an attempt to create a whole new vision of what Christian education should be, one centered on service to the Church. One chapter of this work, "On Signs," is the m
This volume rounds out an important trilogy of studies by Pierre Payer on the topic of sex in the ecclesiastical thought and writings of the middle ages. His first volume,Sex and the Penitentials: The
