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When Theologians play Philosophers : a Lost Confrontation between James of Eltville and his socii on the Perfection of Species and its Infinite Latitude

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This paper is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct a lost philosophical debate held in Paris in 1369. The protagonists of this confrontation, bachelors in theology, are authors but their texts are often lost. Among them we find James of Eltville. New evidence in the form of surviving fragments containing his ideas will guide us to uncover his intellectual contribution to the doctrinal history of the second half of 14 th century. The project of editing the Sentences commentary of James of Eltville 1 excavated, in its initial stage, the medieval dissemination of this text. The 22 surviving manuscripts (four other codices are known to have existed) 2 together provide a complete witness to the Cistercian's lectures on the Sentences delivered at the Collège de Saint-Bernard in Paris during the 1369-1370 academic year. Yet while these codices contain questions corresponding to each of the four books of Peter Lombard's Sentences, 3 they preserve no evidence of Eltville's Principia, presented before the assembled Faculty of Theology. True, the first question of book II relates that it is asked circa principium secundi libri, 4 but the use of term principium here merely informs the reader about the beginning of the second book of Eltville's questions on the Sentences. The lack of Eltville's Principia is not surprising, since proportionally just a very small number of Principia have survived from the fourteenth century. Unlike questions on the Sentences, Principia derive from the inaugural debates among the bachelors of the Sentences, thus opening the academic year at the universities. Principia are still a largely unexplored genre, a potential gold mine that could provide some surprising findings, especially because the texts are based on the direct confrontation between the candidates for the title of master of theology. From a historical point of view, the written remnant of the principial debate can

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Monica Brinzei. When Theologians play Philosophers : a Lost Confrontation between James of Eltville and his socii on the Perfection of Species and its Infinite Latitude. M. Brinzei. The Cistercian James of Eltville († 1393). Author in Paris and Authority in Vienna, 3, Brepols, pp. 43-77, 2018, Studia Sententiarum (SSENT), 978-2-503-58188-0. ⟨hal-03607198⟩
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