Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

List of Abbreviations

David Luscombe: An Appreciation

Pertransibunt plurimi: Reading Daniel to Transgress Authority

How Can We Know Who Holds Legitimate Power? Dante on the Right and the Wrong Uses of Knowledge

Knowledge of the Origins: Constructing Identity and Ordering Monastic Life in the Middle Ages

Seeking Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon’s Expertise

The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North: A Twelfth-Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library

Questioning the Music of the Spheres in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Johannes de Grocheio and Jerome de Moravia OP

Papal Policy on Judging the Orthodoxy of University Masters, a Research Problem

Jean Gerson and the Renewal of Scholastic Discourse 1400–1415

Controversy and Compromise in Religious Communities in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in der politischen Ekklesiologie der Augustinerschule des 14. Jahrhunderts

The Power of Wisdom: Four Case Studies of a Late Thirteenth-Century Debate

Liberty and Limit: Controlling and Challenging Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe

Peter Abelard’s Theory of Virtues and its Context

The Discipline of the Republic and the Knowledge of the Citizens: What we may Learn from Late Medieval Endowment Practice

A Bibliography of the Published Writings of David Luscombe

Index of Manuscripts

General Index