Joseph Canning, Ph.D. (1974) in History, University of Cambridge, was formerly Reader in History at Bangor University, and is now Affiliated Lecturer in History at Cambridge University. He has published extensively in medieval political thought.Edmund King, Ph.D. (1968), in History, University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield, His publications on the social and political history of medieval Britain include most recently King Stephen in the Yale English Monarchs Series (2010).Martial Staub, Ph.D. (1997), University of Paris X - Nanterre, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the history of the Church and urban societies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe and has edited Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters, 2 vols. (Darmstadt, 2008).

• Preface ... ixList of Abbreviations ... xvDavid Luscombe: An Appreciation ... 1Christopher BrookePertransibunt plurimi: Reading Daniel to Transgress Authority ... 7Robert E. LernerHow Can We Know Who Holds Legitimate Power? Dante on the Right and the Wrong Uses of Knowledge ... 29Joseph CanningKnowledge of the Origins: Constructing Identity and Ordering Monastic Life in the Middle Ages ... 41Gert MelvilleSeeking Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon’s Expertise ... 63Amanda PowerThe Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North: A Twelfth-Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library ... 79Charles BurnettQuestioning the Music of the Spheres in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Johannes de Grocheio and Jerome de Moravia OP ... 95Constant J. MewsPapal Policy on Judging the Orthodoxy of University Masters, a Research Problem ... 119William J. CourtenayJean Gerson and the Renewal of Scholastic Discourse 1400–1415 ... 129Brian Patrick McGuireControversy and Compromise in Religious Communities in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries ... 145Giles ConstablePseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in der politischen Ekklesiologie der Augustinerschule des 14. Jahrhunderts ... 157Jürgen MiethkeThe Power of Wisdom: Four Case Studies of a Late Thirteenth Century Debate ... 175Andreas SpeerLiberty and Limit: Controlling and Challenging Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe ... 201Martin KintzingerPeter Abelard’s Theory of Virtues and its Context ... 231John MarenbonThe Discipline of the Republic and the Knowledge of the Citizens: What we may Learn from Late Medieval Endowment Practice ... 243Martial StaubA Bibliography of the Published Writings of David Luscombe ... 255Index of Manuscripts ... 273General Index ... 275