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Courtenay, William James was born on November 5, 1935 in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Walter Rowe and Emily (Simpson) Courtenay.
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Ockham and Ockhamism: Studies in the Dissemination and Impact of His Thought (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
(Long thought to be the most important medieval philosophe...)
Long thought to be the most important medieval philosopher and theologian after Scotus and the founder of late medieval Nominalism, the meaning and influence of William of Ockham's thought have become matters of intense debate in recent years. After a survey of the changing assessment of Nominalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and a new understanding of twelfth-century Nominalism with related elements in the thought of Augustine and Anselm, this book examines the reception of Ockham's thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris in the 1335 to 1345 period, and concludes with an examination of the legacy of Ockhamist thought in the late medieval period.
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Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England
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William Courtenay provides a comprehensive account of educational structure and intellectual life in fourteenth-century England. Arguing that the two decades between 1320 and 1340 merit recognition as a golden age of English scholasticism, he examines the achievements of this period, their origins, and their adoption throughout continental Europe. He depicts an institutional setting, centered on Oxford but including cathedral and mendicant schools elsewhere, that rewarded not slavish obedience to school traditions but innovations in logic, mathematics, physics, and theology. He then analyzes the second half of the century, when thinkers like Wyclif moved toward more evangelical writing, when law outstripped theology in popularity at Oxford, and when courtly society replaced the schools as the major influence on English culture. Anticipating aspects of the sixteenth century, England after 1360 experienced an increase in lay literacy and a wider audience for biblical study, sermons, devotional treatises, and vernacular literature. The scope of Professor Courtenay's study of this transition from the world of Ockham to the world of Chaucer makes it of interest not only as a contribution to late medieval intellectual history but also as background for the study of Middle English literature.
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Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought)
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Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
(This study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary ...)
This study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary composition of the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century--the most detailed of its kind ever attempted--is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document: the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329-1330. After a thorough examination of this document, the book explores residential patterns, the relationship of students, masters, and tutors, social class and levels of wealth, interaction with the royal court, and the geographical background of university scholars.
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Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait PARISIAN SCHOLARS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY: A SOCIAL PORTRAIT By Courtenay, William J. ( Author )Mar-25-1999 Hardcover
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William James Courtenay
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William James Courtenay, American Historian, educator. Avocation: sailing.
M C. Recipient Younger Scholar award National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1968-1969; fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany, 1975-1976, 79-80, Guggenheim, 1980, National Endowment for Humanities, Newberry Library., Chicago, 1983, Humboldt Preis, 1988, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989.
Education
AB, Vanderbilt University, 1957. STB, Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
Doctor of Letters honoris causa, University of South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 2005.
Career
Instructor history, Stanford (California) U., 1965-1966; assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1966-1969; associate professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969-1971; professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1971; C.H. Haskins professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1988.
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Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
(This study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary ...)
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Ockham and Ockhamism: Studies in the Dissemination and Impact of His Thought (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
(Long thought to be the most important medieval philosophe...)
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Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England
( William Courtenay provides a comprehensive account of e...)
- Covenant Causality Medieval Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Theology, and Economic Practice (Variorum reprint)
- Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought)
- Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait PARISIAN SCHOLARS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY: A SOCIAL PORTRAIT By Courtenay, William J. ( Author )Mar-25-1999 Hardcover
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Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)
Membership
Fellow Medieval Academy American (member council 1974-1977, 2001-2004), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal History Society (London). Member American Society Church History (councillor 1982-1985, president 1988), International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (assesseur de bureau 1997-2007), University Club.
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Children: Elizabeth Spire, William Todd.
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American
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1957
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1960
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1967
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2005
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1965 - 1966
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1966 - 1969
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Recipient Younger Scholar award National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 1968-1969, 83. Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany, 1975-1976, 79-80, Guggenheim Found, 1980, National Endowment of the Humanities, Newberry Library., Chicago, 1983, Humboldt Preis, 1988, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989, Herzog August Bibliothek fellow, 1997, 2002, 2003, American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1995-1996.Recipient Younger Scholar award National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 1968-1969, 83. Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany, 1975-1976, 79-80, Guggenheim Found, 1980, National Endowment of the Humanities, Newberry Library., Chicago, 1983, Humboldt Preis, 1988, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989, Herzog August Bibliothek fellow, 1997, 2002, 2003, American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1995-1996.