Summistae

Theimportance of the Summa theologiae onlate scholasticismThomas Aquinas Summa theologiae is one of the classicsin the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the MiddleAges, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subjectof commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the officialtext for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholicuniversities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonialAmericas started lecturing and producing commentaries on the Summa and using it as a starting pointfor many theological and philosophical discussions. Some of the works of majorauthors such as Vitoria, Soto, Molina, Suarez and Arriaga are for all intents and purposes commentaries on the Summa. This bookis the first scholarly endeavour to investigate this commentary tradition. Asit examines late scholasticism against its institutional backdrop and containsstudies of unpublished manuscripts and texts, it will remain an authoritativesource for the research of late scholasticism.Contributors: Igor Agostini (University of Salento),Monica Brinzei (CNRS IRHT, Paris), William Duba (University of Fribourg),Matthew Gaetano (Hillsdale College), Helen Hattab (University of Houston),Lidia Lanza (University of Lisbon), Mauro Mantovani (Salesian PontificalUniversity), Daniel D. Novotny and Tomas Machula (University of South Bohemia inCeske Budejovice), Chris Schabel (University of Cyprus), Jean-Luc Solere(Boston College), Marco Toste (University of Fribourg), Andreas Wagner (GoetheUniversity of Frankfurt), Ueli Zahnd (University of Geneva)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).