A Companionto Giles of Rome Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition A SERIES OF HANDBOOKS AND REFERENCE WORKS ON THE INTELLECTUAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF EUROPE, 500—1800 Edited by Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University) VOLUME 71 Thetitles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bcct A Companion to Giles of Rome Edited by Charles F. Briggs Peter S. Eardley NEG] s De S T T M E L "Peg"S BRILL LEIDEN | BOSTON Coverillustration: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum(Italian, s. xiv); Paris, Bibliothéque nationale de France, Ms.Latin 10207,fol. 2r. Giles of Romelecturesthe king (Philip the Fair) and people. (Photo courtesy of the Bibliothéquenationale de France) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names:Briggs, Charles F., editor. Title: A companionto Giles of Rome/ edited by Charles F. Briggs,Peter S. Eardley. 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Koninklijke Brill Nv incorporates the imprintsBrill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, withoutprior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopyitemsfor internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill Nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 RosewoodDrive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and producedin a sustainable manner. Contents Acknowledgements viti Abbreviations vii! List of Contributors 1x Introduction 1 Charles F. Briggs and Peter S. Eardley 1 Life, Works, and Legacy 6 Charles F. Briggs 2 Theology 34 Richard Cross 3 Natural Philosophy 73 Silvia Donati and Cecilia Trifogli 4 Metaphysics 14 Martin Pickavé 5 Cognition 150 Giorgio Pini 6 Ethics and Moral Psychology 173 Peter S. Eardley 7 Logic, Rhetoric, and Language 212 Costantino Marmo 8 Political Thought 255 Roberto Lambertini Chronology of the Works of Giles of Rome 275 Editions of Giles of Rome's Works 277 Bibliography 282 Index 307 Acknowledgements Charles Briggs thanks the dedicated faculty and staff of the University of Vermont's Bailey/HoweLibrary, and especially those in the Inter Library Loan Department,for their unflagging generousassistance. He thanks SeanField of UvM's History Department and the participants in the Dartmouth Medieval Seminarfor their helpful comments onanearly version of his chapter. He is also grateful to Monika Otter of the Comparative Literature Program and English Department, Dartmouth College, for her expert advice when translat- ing portions of Roberto Lambertini's chapter. Peter Eardley is grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadafor a Standard Research Grantthat assisted in producing this volume. Amongotherthings, it allowed for several trips to the library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, which were indis- pensable to the editorial work that went into the volume. He is also grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation for a fellowship to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg from 2011-2012. Part of the moneyassoci- ated with that Fellowship allowed him to hire a research assistant, Mr. Jakob Heller, to proofread the various chapters and their citations. The editors are also grateful to Mr. Heller for assisting in the productionofthe bibliography of secondary sources.Finally, the editors gratefully acknowledge the aid rendered by the two anonymousreviewers, whose manylearned criticisms and sugges- tions have much improved this volume. Abbreviations Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Áge AHDLMA Corpus Christianorum Series Latina CCSL Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis CUP De cognitione angelorum Quaestiones disputatae de cognitione angelorum Dedifferentia De differentia rhetoricae, ethicaeet politicae Deecclesiastica Deecclesiastica potestate De mensura angelorum De mensura Departibus De partibus philosophiae essentialibus De regimine De regimine principum De renunciatione De renunciatione pape Documenti e studi Documentie studi sulla tradizionefilosofica medievale Hexaemeron Opus Hexaemeron In Canticum In Canticum Canticorum expositio In Physicam Commentaria in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis Ordinatio 1 In primum librum Sententiarum Ordinatio 2 In secundum librum Sententiarum Patrologia Latina PL Reportatio Reportatio lecturae superlibros 1-1V Sententiarum Super Libros Elenchorum Expositio super libros Elenchorum Super Libros Rhetoricorum Expositio super libros Rhetoricorum List of Contributors Charles Briggs is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Vermont. His numerous pub- lications include Giles ofRome's *De regimine principum": Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275—c. 1525 (1999); The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300—1520 (2011); "Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An UndergroundHistory,” in The Study ofMedieval Manuscripts ofEngland (2010); and “Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature,” in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (2016). With David Fowler and Paul Remley he edited The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa’s Middle English Translation of the *De regimine principum" ofAegidius Romanus(1997), and heis currently preparing an edition and English translation of the Deregi- mine principum. Heis a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has been a Starr Visiting Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, a Mellon Fellow at Saint Louis University, and a Leslie Humanities Center Fellow at Dartmouth College. Richard Cross is Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Departmentat the University of Notre Dame. He was previously Professor of Medieval Theology at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the Università Pontificia Antonianum in Rome. He spe- cializes in the philosophy and theology of the later Middle Ages, with particu- lar reference to the thought of John DunsScotus and his predecessors. He is the author of The Physics ofDuns Scotus: The Scientific Context ofa Theological Vision (1998), Duns Scotus (1999), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus (2002), Duns Scotus on God (2005), The Medieval Christian Philosophers (2014) and Duns Scotus’s Theory of Cognition (2014). In addition, he is author of over 80 articles and book chapters. Silvia Donati is a Research Fellow at the Albertus-Magnus-Institut in Bonn. She has held research assistantships and fellowships at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, Leuven and Padua.Shespecializes in later medieval philosophy. She is editor of the Aristoteles Latinus provisional edition of the De memoria et reminiscen- tia (2006), and co-editor of several volumesin the Opera Omnia ofNicholas of Cusa. Mostrecently, she has co-edited Albert the Great’s commentary on the Categories (2013). She is author of over 40 academic articles on medieval metaphysics and natural philosophy, with particular reference to the thought x LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS of Giles of Rome, Thomas Wylton, Walter Burley, Robert Kilwardby and Albert the Great. She is currently preparingthe critical edition of Albert's commen- taries on the De sensu et sensato and the De memoria et reminiscentia, and his treatise De nutrimento et nutrito. She has edited, with Cecilia Trifogli and Jennifer Ashworth, Geoffrey of Aspall’s commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (forthcoming 2016). Peter Eardley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, where he spe- cializes in later medieval philosophy. His articles on Giles of Rome’s moral psy- chology have appeared in the Review ofMetaphysics, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Mediaeval Studies and Vivarium, and his studies on medieval theories of ethics in the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception ofAugustine andthe Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales. He is also co-author (with Carl N.Still) of Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010). He has held research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von HumboldtStiftung/Foundation, in which capacity he was associated with the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg. Roberto Lambertini is Professor of Mediaeval History in the Department of Humanities at the University of Macerata,Italy. He specializes in the history of the Mendicant Orders,in intellectual history, and political thought, with special reference to Giles of Rome and the Franciscan Tradition. Some of his studies about Franciscan Poverty are collected in the volumeLa povertà pensata (2000) He is author or co-authorof over 120 academic articles and book chapters. Costantino Marmo is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna and President of the School of Arts and Humanities (Scuola di Lettere e Beni culturali) at the University of Bologna. He specializes in medieval theories of logic, semantics, grammar, and semiotics. He is the author of numerous articles, and editor or co-editor of several collections, including On the Medieval Theory of Signs (1989) with Umberto Eco. His most recent monographsare La semiotica del X111 secolo tra arti liberali e teologia (2010) and Segni, linguaggi, testi. Semiotica per la comunicazione (2014). Martin Pickavé is Professor of Philosophy and a Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy in the Departmentof Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He specializes in