Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Richard Fishacre’s Way to God
2. The Role of Philosophy in Richard Fishacre’s Theology of Creation
3. Between Idolatry and Science: The Magical Arts in the Grosseteste School
4. Of Angels and Pinheads: The Contributions of the Early Oxford Masters to the Doctrine of Spiritual Matter
5. The First Oxford Debate on the Eternity of the World
Appendix 5A. Richard Rufus, In 2 Sent. 1.1; ed. Stephen F. Brown, in MM 21/1 (1991), 270–76
Appendix 5B
6. Fishacre and Rufus on the Metaphysics of Light
Appendix 6A. Richard Rufus, In 2 Sent. 13.1; Oxford, Balliol Coll. MS 62, fols. 131ra–132rb
7. The Division of the Waters (Gn 1:6 – 7): The History of a Conundrum and Its Resolution by the Early Oxford Masters
Appendix 7A. Richard Rufus, In secundum librum Sententiarum, dist. 14; Oxford, Balliol Coll. MS 62, fols. 132va–134ra
Appendix 7B. The Summa of Alexander of Hales (Summa Halensis)
8. Adam’s Rib: A Test Case for Natural Philosophy in Grosseteste, Fishacre, Rufus, and Kilwardby
9. Richard Fishacre and the Problem of the Soul
10. Interiority and Self-Knowledge according to Richard Fishacre
11. Richard Fishacre’s Treatise De libero arbitrio
12. Undoing the Past: Fishacre and Rufus on the Limits of God’s Power
Appendix 12A. Ricard Rufus, In 2 Sent. 25.1
13. The Virgin as Olive Tree: A Marian Sermon of Richard Fishacre and Science at Oxford
Appendix 13A. The Edition
14. Richard Fishacre’s Quaestio on the Ascension of Christ
Appendix 14A. The Manuscript and Edition
15. Richard Fishacre’s “Super S. Augustini librum de haeresibus adnotationes”
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index