Ockham and Ockhamism

William J. Courtenay, Ph.D. (1967) Harvard University, is C. H. Haskins Professor of Medieval History and Hilldale Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published numerous books and articles in medieval intellectual history and on medieval universities, among them Adam Wodeham (Brill, 1978), Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England (Princeton, 1987), Capacity and Volition (Lubrina, 1990), and Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century(Cambridge, 1999).

All those interested in medieval philosophy and theology, intellectual history, medieval universities, and church historians.

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Preface
1. In search of Nominalism: Two Centuries of Historical Debate

Part One Before Ockham
2. Augustine and Nominalism
3. On the Eve of Nominalism: Consignification in Anselm
4. Nominales and Nominalism in the Twelfth Century
5. Nominales and Rules of the Inference

Part Two Ockham's Thought in England and Paris
6. The Academic and Intellectual Worlds of Ockham
7. The Reception of Ockham's Thought in Fourteenth-Century England
8. The Reception of Ockham's Thoughts at the University of Paris

Part Three The Crisis over Ockham's Thought at Paris
9. Ockham, Ockhamists, and the English-German Nation at Paris, 1339-1341
10. Force of Words and Figures of Speech: The Crisis over Virtus sermonis in the Fourteenth Century
11. The Registers of the University of Paris and the Statues against the Scientia Occamica
12. The Debate over Oclham's Physical Theories at Paris
13. The Quaestiones in Sententias of Michael de Massa, OESA. A Redating
14. Conrad of Megenberg: The Parisian Years
15. The Categories, Michael de Massa, and Natural Philosophy at PAris, 1335-1340

Part Four Aftermath
16. Ockhamism amng the Augustinians: the Case of Adam Wodeham
17. Theologia Anglicana Modernorum at Cologne in the Fourteenth Century
18. Was There an Ockhamist School?

List of Manuscripts Cited
Index of Ancient and Medieval Names
Index of Modern Names