The completion of a critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet IV

FAIN: RQ-50259-07

University of North Carolina, Asheville (Asheville, NC 28804-3251)
Gordon Anthony Wilson (Project Director: November 2006 to June 2009)

Completion of preparation for publication of Quodlibet IV, the medieval philosopher Henry of Ghent's longest work, written in 1279. (12 months)

Gordon Wilson and Girard Etzkorn have been invited by Leuven University to produce a critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet IV, volume VIII in the Leuven series HENRICI DE GANDAVO Opera omnia. 45 volumes are anticipated in this series; 16 are already in print. These editions have become the standard texts for translations, secondary studies, and conferences. They have generated a renewed interest in many of Henry's ideas and have highlighted Henry as a major thinker of the Middle Ages. Henry's Quodlibet IV was written at the height of Henry's academic career and many of Henry's mature ideas in this text influenced John Duns Scotus. Because of his originality and influence scholars repeatedly have been promised new editions of his works since the 1880s. Leuven University Press has taken on the printing of the series, and publication is assured. In 2004 the NEH funded two years of research on this volume (all goals were met); one final year is necessary to finish the volume.

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Quodlibet IV (Book)
Title: Quodlibet IV
Author: Henrici de Gandavo
Editor: Girard J. Etzkorn
Editor: Gordon A. Wilson
Abstract: Henry of Ghent, the most influential philosopher/theologian of the last quarter of the 13th century at Paris, delivered his fourth Quodlibet during 1279, at the height of his career. In total there are 37 questions, which cover a wide range of topics, including theories in theology, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, ethics, and canon law. In these questions Henry presents his mature thought concerning the number of human substantial forms in which he counters the claims of the defenders of Thomas Aquinas, particularly those in Giles of Lessines’s De unitate formae, but also those found in Giles of Rome’s Contra Gradus. He is critical of Thomas Aquinas’s theories concerning human knowledge, the ‘more’ and the ‘less,’ and virtue. He also is critical of Bonaventure’s analysis of Augustine’s notion of rationes seminales. There are 33 known manuscripts which contain the text of Quodlibet IV, and the critical text is reconstructed based upon manuscripts known to have been in Henry’s school, as well as manuscripts copied from two successive university exemplars in Paris.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/henrici-de-gandavo-quodlibet-iv/oclc/772736826&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789058677709
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789058677709

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