Background
He flourished about 1350-1400 and was probably a native of the West Midlands.
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Patience, a West Midland poem of the fourteenth century. Edited with introd., bibliography, notes, and glossary, by Hartley Bateson
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Ralph Strode
Ralph Strode was an English schoolman.
Education
He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, before 1360, and famous as a teacher of logic and philosophy and a writer on educational subjects.
Career
He belonged, like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, to that "School of the Middle" which mediated between realists and nominalists.
Besides his Logica, he wrote Consequentiae, a treatise on the syllogism, and Obligationes or Scholastica militia, a series of "formal exercises in scholastic dialectics. " He had some not unfriendly controversy with his colleague John Wyclif, against whom he defended the possession of wealth by the clergy, and held that in the Church abuses were better than disturbance. He also attacked Wyclif's doctrine of predestination. His positions are gathered from Wyclif's Responsiones ad Rodolphum Strodum (MS. 3926, Vienna Imperial Library).
Strode is also associated with John Gower in Chaucer's dedication of Troylus and Cryseyde, and Strode himself, according to the 15th-century Vetus cata- logus of fellows of Merton, was a " poeta nobilis. " John Leland and John Bale confirm this testimony, and Professor I Gollancz has suggested the identification of the Phantasma Radulphi attributed to Strode in the Vetus catalogus with the beautiful 14th-century elegiac poem The Pearl. If this hold good, Strode wrote also Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight.
From 1375 to 1385 this Strode or another of the same name was common sergeant of the city of London; he died in 1387.
Works
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Patience, a West Midland poem of the fourteenth century. Edited with introd., bibliography, notes, and glossary, by Hartley Bateson
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Patience, a West Midland poem of the fourteenth century. Edited with introd., bibliography, notes, and glossary, by Hartley Bateson
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Chaucer dedicates his poem Troilus and Criseyde to the contemporary poet John Gower and to Strode:
"O moral Gower, this book I directe
To the, and to the, philosophical Strode,
To vouchen sauf, ther nede is, to correcte,
Of youre benignités and zeles goode.
— (Book V, 1856-1860)
