Quodlibeta

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During the Middle Ages, quodlibeta were public disputations in which scholars debated questions "about anything" (de quolibet) posed by the audience. The practice originated in the theological faculty of the University of Paris around 1230. Classes were suspended just before Christmas and Easter holidays so that the masters could hold public sessions taking questions from the audience. After 1270, the practice spread beyond Paris, but elsewhere was usually associated with the studia (schools) of the mendicant orders. Records of quodlibeta survive on parchment from the 1230s to the 1330s, but thereafter written records are scarce. The practice, however, continued into the sixteenth century.[1]

A catalogue of quodlibetal questions and manuscripts was published by Palémon Glorieux [fr] in two volumes between 1925 and 1932.[2] Glorieux catalogued about 325 recorded quodlibeta by about 120 named authors and 30 anonymous quodlibeta. This amounts to over 6,000 individual questions. About half of quodlibeta and a definite majority of questions and manuscripts are attributed to Dominican or Franciscan scholars.[3]

Authors of quodlibeta[edit]

The following list is from Glorieux, except as noted.[4]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Schabel 2006, pp. 1–2.
  2. ^ Schabel 2006, p. 2.
  3. ^ Schabel 2006, pp. 4–5.
  4. ^ Glorieux 1925–1935, vol. 2, index.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Glorieux, Palémon (1925–1935). La littérature quodlibétique de 1260 à 1320. Le Saulchoir.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Schabel, Christopher, ed. (2006). Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century. Brill.
  • Schabel, Christopher, ed. (2007). Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages: The Fourteenth Century. Brill.
  • Sweeney, Eileen (2023). "Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved 11 April 2024.

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