Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of David Luscombe(106 Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters)

This collection of essays is based on a conference in honour of David Luscombe held at the University of Sheffield in September 2006 under the title "Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages." The 14 contributions to this Festschrift, by leading scholars in the field, show the strength and variety of recent work on the intellectual history of the middle ages. A group of papers deals with changes in the intellectual landscape during this period. Other papers focus particularly on the theme of jurisdiction, while a third groups deals with knowledge and its uses. The papers fittingly reflect the breadth and inventiveness of David Luscombe's scholarship, and in particular his work on Peter Abelard. Contributors are Christopher Brooke, Charles Burnett, Joseph Canning, Giles Constable, William J. Courtenay, Martin Kintzinger, Robert E. Lerner, Brian Patrick McGuire, John Marenbon, Gert Melville, Constant J. Mews, Jurgen Miethke, Amanda Power, Andreas Speer, and Martial Staub.

Table of Contents:
Preface ... ix List of Abbreviations ... xv David Luscombe: An Appreciation ... 1 Christopher Brooke Pertransibunt plurimi: Reading Daniel to Transgress Authority ... 7 Robert E. Lerner How Can We Know Who Holds Legitimate Power? Dante on the Right and the Wrong Uses of Knowledge ... 29 Joseph Canning Knowledge of the Origins: Constructing Identity and Ordering Monastic Life in the Middle Ages ... 41 Gert Melville Seeking Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon’s Expertise ... 63 Amanda Power The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North: A Twelfth-Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library ... 79 Charles Burnett Questioning the Music of the Spheres in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Johannes de Grocheio and Jerome de Moravia OP ... 95 Constant J. Mews Papal Policy on Judging the Orthodoxy of University Masters, a Research Problem ... 119 William J. Courtenay Jean Gerson and the Renewal of Scholastic Discourse 1400–1415 ... 129 Brian Patrick McGuire Controversy and Compromise in Religious Communities in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries ... 145 Giles Constable Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in der politischen Ekklesiologie der Augustinerschule des 14. Jahrhunderts ... 157 Jürgen Miethke The Power of Wisdom: Four Case Studies of a Late Thirteenth Century Debate ... 175 Andreas Speer Liberty and Limit: Controlling and Challenging Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe ... 201 Martin Kintzinger Peter Abelard’s Theory of Virtues and its Context ... 231 John Marenbon The Discipline of the Republic and the Knowledge of the Citizens: What we may Learn from Late Medieval Endowment Practice ... 243 Martial Staub A Bibliography of the Published Writings of David Luscombe ... 255 Index of Manuscripts ... 273 General Index ... 275

About the Author :
Joseph Canning, Ph.D. (1974) in History, University of Cambridge, was formerly Reader in History at Bangor University, and is now Affiliated Lecturer in History at Cambridge University. He has published extensively in medieval political thought. Edmund King, Ph.D. (1968), in History, University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield, His publications on the social and political history of medieval Britain include most recently King Stephen in the Yale English Monarchs Series (2010). Martial Staub, Ph.D. (1997), University of Paris X - Nanterre, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the history of the Church and urban societies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe and has edited Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters, 2 vols. (Darmstadt, 2008).