377. One Way or Another: Northern Scholasticism

Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalist theology of Gabriel Biel.

• P.F. Grendler, “The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation,” Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004), 1-42.

• M.J.F.M. Hoenen, “Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit,” in R.L. Friedman and L.O. Nielsen (eds), The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700 (Dordrecht: 2003), 9–36.

• M.J.F.M. Hoenen, “Philosophie und Theologie im 15. Jahrhundert: die Universität Freiburg und der Wegestreit,” in D. Mertens and H. Smolinski (eds), Von der hohen Schule zur Universität der Neuzeit (Freiburg: 2007), 67-91.   

• P. Kärkkäinen, “Theology, Philosophy, and Immortality of the Soul in the Late Via Moderna of Erfurt,” Vivarium 43 (2005), 337-60.

• P. Kärkkäinen, “Synderesis in Late Medieval Philosophy and the Wittenberg Reformers,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (2012), 881-901.

• H.A. Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (Cambridge MA: 1963).

• J.H. Overfield, “Scholastic Opposition to Humanism in Pre-Reformation Germany,” Viator 7 (1976), 391-420.

• J.H. Overfield, Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany (Princeton: 1984).

• E. Rummel, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation (Cambridge, MA: 1995).

• A. Zimmermann (ed.), Antiqui und Moderni: Traditionsbewusstsein und Fortschrittbewusstsein im späten Mittelalter (Berlin: 1974).