The history of Dominican schools is taken up directly in the book's second part: the existence of pre-postulancy schools for boys is mooted, and the formation of novices described; conventual education is discussed at length; the growth of the Dominican studium system from the mid-thir- teenth century is also examined, with lengthy sections devoted to each type of studium, to the history of its de [...] The result is both a fresh perspective from which to view the work of the greatest Dominican thinkers of the middle ages, as well as a new appre- ciation of the care taken in the formation of friars of the rank-and-file. [...] To study the preaching of the friars, Hugh was telling me, whether as it sounded from the pulpit or as it appears on the frescoed walls of a mendicant church, one needs to understand the schools of the friars, the curricula, the pedagogical techniques, and the mental ha- bits in which Dominican preachers were formed. [...] By apprising ourselves more fully of the goals of Dominican education, and of the orientation of the friars' educational policies, we can better sense the tensions which shaped the growth of the order's schools, and the reasons why certain steps were taken, and others halted, on the road to conformity with the universities. [...] Those interested in the first century of development in the order's life, as we are here, are fortunate to have a virtually complete log of the acta of the gen- eral chapter from the order's inception through the fourteenth century.4 These are complemented by the surviving encyclical letters of the Domini- can masters-general from this period,5 who likewise had a responsibility 3 The so-called Con
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- PART ONE. THE DOMINICAN ORDER AND LEARNING 24
- 1. The Formative Period for Dominican Education 26
- A. Preachers in Toulouse, 1215-1217 29
- B. The Order of Preachers and the Mission Beyond Toulouse 47
- C. The Era of Constitution-Making: The Order's Ancient Educational Legislation 59
- D. The Mandate of the Early Bulls of Recommendation 70
- E. The Essential Conservatism of Early Dominican Education 77
- PART TWO. THE INSTITUTIONAL FACE OF DOMINICAN EDUCATION THE SCHOOLS AND THEIR CURRICULA 96
- 2. The Formation of Novices 98
- A. The Requirements for Entrance 102
- B. Pre-Postulancy Schools for Boys 108
- C. Novices and the Discipline of the Cloister 120
- D. The Cultivation of a New Interior Life 134
- E. Later Novitiate Houses 149
- 3. Dominican Conventual Education and the Training of the Fratres communes 153
- A. The Dominican Convent and its Schola 155
- B. Lectures 157
- C. Disputations 190
- D. Repetitions 198
- E. The Conventual School-Year in the Roman Province 201
- F. The Making of the Preacher 207
- G. The Making of the Confessor 216
- H. Elias de Ferreriis and Conventual Education in the Houses of Toulouse 227
- 4. Provincial Studia 242
- A. Studia artium 243
- B. The "Arts" Course 261
- C. Studia naturarum 275
- D. The Natural Philosophy Course 290
- E. Studia particularis theologiae 300
- F. The Theology Course Designed by Thomas Aquinas at Santa Sabina 301
- G. Further Development of the Intermediate Theology Model: Naples, 1272-73 329
- H. The Later Provincial Theology Course in the Roman Province 344
- I. "Particular" and "General" Theology 359
- J. Studia Bibliae 363
- K Studia linguarum 367
- 5. The Dominicans and the Universities 374
- A. The Secular Studia generalia and Dominican Studia generalia 375
- B. The Course of the Dominican Studia generalia 401
- C. Remigio de' Girolami and General Theology at Florence 407
- PART THREE. THE TEXTS OF DOMINICAN EDUCATION 420
- 6. Preaching Aids: Sermon Collections, Florilegia, Exempla, and Artes 423
- A. The Sermo modernus 424
- B. Model Sermon Collections 442
- C. Florilegia 471
- D. Collections of Exempla 481
- E. Preaching Manuals 495
- 7. Tools for Biblical Exegesis 503
- A. Dominican Commentators 508
- B. Correctoria 529
- C. The St-Jacques Concordance 532
- D. Biblical Distinctions 537
- E. Subject Indexes 544
- 8. Aids to the Confessor: Manuals of Moral Theology 550
- Conclusion 576
- Bibliography 580
- A. Manuscripts Cited 580
- B. Printed Primary Sources 583
- C. Secondary Sources 591
- Index 620
- A 620
- B 622
- C 623
- D 626
- E 627
- F 627
- G 628
- H 629
- I 630
- J 631
- K 631
- L 631
- M 633
- N 634
- O 634
- P 635
- Q 637
- R 637
- S 638
- T 639
- U 640
- V 640
- W 641
- Y 641
- Z 641