Gregory of Rimini Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Gregory of Rimini.

Gregory of Rimini Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Gregory of Rimini.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Gregory of Rimini

In 1961 historian of medieval philosophy Gordon Leff had an article published titled "Gregory of Rimini: A Fourteenth-Century Augustinian." It was followed the same year by his Gregory of Rimini: Tradition and Innovation in Fourteenth-Century Thought. Since then, no book in English on Gregory has appeared. Between 1979 and 1984, however, the leading scholar on Gregory, Damasus Trapp, together with Venicio Marcolino, edited Gregory's magnum opus, the Lectura super Primum et Secundum Librum Sententiarum (Lectures on the First and Second Books of the Sentences [of Peter Lombard], 1343-1347). The product of Gregory's teaching years at the University of Paris, the Lectura is an outstanding witness to the central debates on philosophy and theology at the university in the fourteenth century. The lack of a presentation of Gregory's philosophical position, or a down-playing of that position in modern textbooks and histories of philosophy, has led to a distorted view of medieval philosophy...

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