A catalogue of ongoing research having to do with Peter Auriol.
If you are working on some aspect of Auriol’s thought, please send a description of your project to Russell L. Friedman.
For secondary literature on Auriol, see the Bibliography in progress at this site. For the most recent publications, compare the UPDATES section with the bibliography.
Jan Aertsen (Cologne/Amsterdam):is working on a history of the theory of the transcendentals in the Middle Ages, which includes a substantial discussion of Auriol’s ideas on the univocity of the concept of being, the object of the intellect, metaphysics, and the transcendentals.
Martin Bauer (Stuttgart):is working on a critical edition of Auriol’s only purely philosophical work, De principiis naturae.
Charles Bolyard (JMU):is currently working on Auriol’s theory of truth as part of a larger study of skepticism in the later Middle Ages.
David Burr (Virginia Tech): is in the process of writing a book “that deals with medieval exegesis of the Apocalypse” and that he describes in the following terms: “It’s essentially a book that provides general comments about a series of exegetes and translates key passages from each.” Burr plans to include Auriol in the book.
Domenic D’Ettore (Houston): is studying early Thomist discussions of demonstration through analogous terms. One of the chapters of his dissertation focusses on Auriol’s discussion of the concept of being and of names said of God and creatures. “In other chapters I argue that Auriol’s treatment of the topic influences John Capreolus and accounts for important differences between Capreolus’s doctrine and those of his predecessors including Hervaeus Natalis and Thomas Sutton.”
Thomas Dewender (Bonn):is studying the role of the imagination in Auriol’s philosophical psychology, based in part on an edition of sections of Auriol’s II Sentences, d. 11.
William Duba (Fribourg, Switzerland):is continuing his work on Auriol’s theory of matter, of hylomorphism, and of the nature of the rational soul. He is revising for publication his dissertation on the beatific vision (“Seeing God: Theology
and Politics in the Fourteenth Century”, University of Iowa, 2006) which will feature Auriol’s ideas prominently.
Russell L. Friedman (Leuven):continues his research into Auriol’s trinitarian thought (which will eventually appear in the book, Intellectual Traditions at the Medieval University: The Incorporation of Philosophical Psychology into Trinitarian Theology among the Franciscans and Dominicans, 1250-1350, and parts of which will soon appear in abbreviated form in the survey Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge UP, 2010)), as well as into Auriol’s theory of intellectual cognition (which will end up in a book on Peter Auriol on Concepts).
Theo Kobusch (Bonn):is working on a book about the philosophy and theology of Auriol, Hervaeus Natalis, and Durand of St. Pourçain.
Lauge O. Nielsen (Copenhagen):is continuing work on “Peter Auriol and his contemporaries” and is preparing critical editions of questions from Auriol’s Quodlibet.
Michael Renemann (Berlin):Is readying a book on the philosophy of Bartholomee Mastri, which includes considerable discussion of Auriol’s theory of cognition.
Chris Schabel (Nicosia, Cyprus):Continues work on Auriol, his thought and works, and their context. He has published several major articles recently on scholars who reacted to Auriol (e.g. Gerard Odo, Landulph Caracciolo).
Tiziana Suarez-Nani (Fribourg, Switzerland):is working on Angelic Cognition in Peter Auriol (L’innato e l’acquisito: Pietro Aureolo e la conoscenza degli angeli).
Mark Thakkar (Oxford):is working on a DPhil at Oxford that deals most extensively with Auriol’s and with Gregory of Rimini’s ideas on future contingents and divine foreknowledge.
Nancy L. Turner (University of Wisconsin-Platteville):is now working on a critical edition of Book 2, d. 43, q.1,a.1 of Auriol’s Sentences commentary, which is the “location of Auriol’s most original and idiosyncratic pronouncement about what he sees as the first-century Jews’ motivations for bringing about Christ’s death. His pronouncements are embedded in a larger discussion on sins against the Holy Spirit.”
Florian Wöller (Basel):is currently preparing a Ph.D. dissertation in the history of theology dealing with Auriol’s use of cognitive theory in his theology and in the eucharist. The dissertation will discuss reactions to Auriol by Landulphus Caracciolo, Francis of Meyronnes, and Francis of Marchia.