The Reception of Durand's Sentences Commentary, with Two Case Studies: Peter Auriol (†1322) and Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl (†1433)
Résumé
In the fifteenth century Thomas Aquinas took his place as the leading theological authority of the Western Middle Ages. In the fourteenth century, however, while Aquinas was a towering figure, in no way did his shadow confine a number of other outstanding scholastic thinkers to darkness, even in the Dominican Order. Indeed, Hervaeus Natalis in Paris and Robert Holcot in Oxford made names for themselves and secured their lasting fame beyond the Middle Ages. Perhaps no other fourteenth-century Dominican attracted more of the attention of his contemporaries and successors inside and outside the Order of Friars Preacher than did Durand of Saint-Pourçain. Besides the early negative reaction to his teachings within his own order, Durand's impact on other theologians was immediate, widespread, and longlived. Yet it is too early to gauge that impact comprehensively. For this we await not only the critical edition of his own Sentences commentary, but also the publication of more texts by theologians who came after him. This brief introduction to Durand's reception, therefore, will synthesize the results of our own previous and present research projects insofar as they shed light on Durand's importance. After some introductory remarks, we focus on two case studies: the Franciscan Peter Auriol, perhaps the most important Parisian theologian in the quarter century after Durand's own Parisian sojourn (and whose Sentences commentary we ourselves have been working on for close to a quarter of a century), and Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl, a secular 97223_Speer_11_Brinzel.indd 295 10/04/14 09:17
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