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).

• AbbreviationsPreface1. In search of Nominalism: Two Centuries of Historical DebatePart One Before Ockham2. Augustine and Nominalism3. On the Eve of Nominalism: Consignification in Anselm4. Nominales and Nominalism in the Twelfth Century5. Nominales and Rules of the InferencePart Two Ockham's Thought in England and Paris6. The Academic and Intellectual Worlds of Ockham7. The Reception of Ockham's Thought in Fourteenth-Century England8. The Reception of Ockham's Thoughts at the University of ParisPart Three The Crisis over Ockham's Thought at Paris9. Ockham, Ockhamists, and the English-German Nation at Paris, 1339-134110. Force of Words and Figures of Speech: The Crisis over Virtus sermonis in the Fourteenth Century11. The Registers of the University of Paris and the Statues against the Scientia Occamica12. The Debate over Oclham's Physical Theories at Paris13. The Quaestiones in Sententias of Michael de Massa, OESA. A Redating14. Conrad of Megenberg: The Parisian Years 15. The Categories, Michael de Massa, and Natural Philosophy at PAris, 1335-1340Part Four Aftermath16. Ockhamism amng the Augustinians: the Case of Adam Wodeham17. Theologia Anglicana Modernorum at Cologne in the Fourteenth Century18. Was There an Ockhamist School?List of Manuscripts CitedIndex of Ancient and Medieval NamesIndex of Modern Names