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 .

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