Abstracts
Abstract
This article focuses on the treatise De immortalitate animae (Paris, 1491) written by Guillaume Houppelande, one of the most famous members of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris in the fifteenth century. Houppelande’s treatise, which refers to ancient, patristic, and medieval sources, contains several arguments on the immortality of the soul. Special attention is first given to Houppelande’s attitude towards those philosophical and theological theories that supported his own arguments before focus is turned towards an analysis of Houppelande’s relationship to medieval philosophy.
Résumé
Cet article s’intéresse au traité De immortalitate animae (Paris, 1491) rédigé par Guillaume Houppelande, l’un des plus célèbres membres de la Faculté de théologie de l’Université de Paris au XVe siècle. Le traité de Houppelande, qui renvoie à la fois à des sources anciennes, patristiques et médiévales, comporte plusieurs arguments sur l’immortalité de l’âme. Nous commençons par porter une attention particulière à l’attitude de Houppelande à l’égard des théories philosophiques et théologiques sur lesquelles se fondaient ses arguments, avant de nous concentrer sur une analyse de la relation de Houppelande avec la philosophie médiévale.
Download the article in PDF to read it.
Download
Appendices
Bibliography
- Albertus Magnus. De anima. Edited by Clemens Stroick. Münster: Aschendorff, 1968.
- Ambrose. “Death as a Good.” In Seven Exegetical Works, translated by Michael P. McHugh, 69–113. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003.
- Aquinas, Thomas. Quaestiones disputatae de anima. Edited by Bernardo C. Bazàn. Rome: Typographia Polyglotta, 1996.
- Aquinas, Thomas. Questions on the Soul. Translated by James H. Robb. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1984.
- Aristotle. De anima: Books II and III with Passages from Book I. Translated by D. W. Hamlyn and Christopher John Shields. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
- Baranński, Zygmunt G. “The Ethics of Ignorance: Petrarch’s Epicurus and Averroës and the Structures of the De Sui Ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia.” In Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years, edited by Martin McLaughlin, Letizia Panizza, and Peter Hainsworth, 39–59. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264133.003.0004.
- Bettoni, Efrem. Duns Scotus: The Basic Principles of His Philosophy. Translated by Bernardine Bonansea. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1961.
- Blum, Paul Richard. “The Immortality of the Soul.” In The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, edited by James Hankins, 211–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052184648X.011.
- Bos, A. P. The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Living Nature. Leiden: Brill, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004247635.
- Bridges, Geoffrey G. “The Problem of the Demonstrability of Immortality.” In John Duns Scotus, 1265–1965, edited by John K. Ryan and Bernardine M. Bonansea, 191–209. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1965. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt22h6r2x.
- Busson, Henri. Le Rationalisme dans la littérature francaise de la Renaissance (1553–1601). Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1922.
- Campanelli, Maurizio. “Marsilio Ficino’s Portrait of Hermes Trismegistus and Its Afterlife.” Intellectual History Review 29, no. 1 (2019): 53–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2019.1546439.
- Chesnutt, Randall D. “Wisdom of Solomon.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature, edited by Samuel L. Adams and Matthew Goff, 104–21. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119158288.ch6.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato Maior de Senectute. Edited by J. G. F. Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De natura deorum libri tres. Edited by Joseph B. Mayor and J. H. Swainson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Nature of the Gods. Translated by Horace C. P. McGregor. London: Penguin Books, 1972.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Republic and The Laws. Translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae disputationes. Edited by Max Pohlenz. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1982. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952568.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculan Disputations. Translated by C. D. Younge. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14988/14988-h/14988-h.htm.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculan Disputations: Book I. Translated by A. E. Douglas. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015.
- Collard, Franck. Un historien au travail à la fin du XVe siècle: Robert Gaguin. Geneva: Droz, 1996.
- Corti, Maria. Dante a un nuovo crocevi. Florence: Sansoni, 1982.
- Davidson, Herbert A. Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- De Gaulle, M. J. Nouvelle histoire de Paris et de ses environs. Paris: P. M. Pourrat Frères, 1839.
- Des Chene, Dennis. Life’s Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- Di Napoli, Giovanni. L’immortalità dell’anima nel Rinascimento. Turin: Società editrice internationale, 1963.
- Drozdek, Adam. “The Problem of the Immortality of the Soul in Epicurus.” Myrtia: Revista de Filología Clásica 25 (2010): 43–52. https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/131581.
- Duns Scotus, John. Opera omnia. Edited by Luke Wadding. Vol. 20, Quaestiones in quartum librum sententiarum a distinctione quadragesima nona usque ad quinquagesimam. Paris: Vivès, 1894.
- Duns Scotus, John. Philosophical Writings: A Selection. Translated by Allan Wolter. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.
- Epstein, Steven A. The Medieval Discovery of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207768.
- Espina, Alfonso de. Fortalitium fidei. Lugduni: Gulielmus Balsarin, 1487.
- Eusebius. Die Praeparatio Evangelica. Edited by Karl Mras et al. Vol. 1, Einleitung, Die Bücher I Bis X. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1982.
- Féret, Pierre. La Faculté de théologie de Paris et ses docteurs les plus célèbres. Vol. 4, Moyen âge. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1897.
- Franklin, Alfred. Dictionnaire des noms, surnoms et pseudonymes latins de l’histoire littéraire du Moyen Âge. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1875.
- Gaguin, Robert. Epistole et orationes. Edited by Luis Thuasne. Paris: É. Bouillon, 1903.
- Gorochov, Nathalie. Le Collège de Navarre, de sa fondation (1305) au début du XVe siècle (1418): Histoire de l’institution, de sa vie intellectuelle et de son recrutement. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1997.
- Gougenheim, Georges. “L’Humanisme en France aux XIVe et XVe siècles.” Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé 33, no. 4 (1974): 413–20. https://doi.org/10.3406/bude.1974.3514.
- Hamesse, Jacqueline. Les Auctoritates Aristotelis: Un florilège médiéval: Étude historique et édition critique. Louvain: Publications universitaires de Louvain, 1974.
- Hankins, James, and Ada Palmer. The Recovery of Ancient Philosophy in the Renaissance: A Brief Guide. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008.
- Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius. Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Hieronymus. Biblia sacra vulgata. Edited by Andreas Beriger, Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers, and Michael Fieger. Vol. 3, Psalmi – Proverbi – Ecclesiastes – Canticum canticorum – Sapientia – Iesus Sirach. Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490411.
- Houppelande, Guillaume. De immortalitate animae. Edited by Ludovicus Bochin. Paris, 1504.
- Houppelande, Guillaume. The Soule Is Immortall, or, Certaine Discourses Defending the Immortalitie of the Soule against the Limmes of Sathan: To Wit, Saducees, Anabaptists, Atheists and Such like of the Hellish Crue of Aduersaries. Translated by John Jackson. London, 1611.
- Josephus, Flavius. Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary. Volume 1B, Judean War 2. Translated by Steve Mason. Leiden: Brill, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004169340.i-524.
- Joukovsky, Françoise. Le regard intérieur: Thèmes plotiniens chez quelques écrivains de la Renaissance française. Paris: Nizet, 1982.
- Lactantius. Divinarum institutionum libri septem. Edited by Eberhard Heck and Antonie Wlosok. Fasc. 2, Libri III et IV. Leipzig: Saur, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920451.
- Lactantius. The Divine Institutes: Books I–VII. Translated by Mary Francis MacDonald. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1964. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt31nk6q.
- Lebègue, Raymond. “Christian Interpretations of Pagan Authors.” In French Humanism, 1470–1600, edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer, 197–206. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1969.
- Marcel, Raymond. “Introduction et succès du platonisme en France à l’aube de la Renaissance.” In The Late Middle Ages and the Dawn of Humanism outside Italy: Proceedings of the International Conference, Louvain, May 11–13, 1970, edited by Gérard Vérbeke and Jozef Ijsewijn, 89–99. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1972.
- Marsh, David. “Cicero in the Renaissance.” In The Cambridge Companion to Cicero, edited by Catherine Steel, 306–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139048750.020.
- Mason, Steve. Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees: A Composition-Critical Study. Leiden: Brill, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004509108.
- Mittelmann, Jorge. “Neoplatonic Sailors and Peripatetic Ships: Aristotle, Alexander, and Philoponus.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 51, no. 4 (October 2013): 545–66. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2013.0086.
- Mohammed, Ovey N. Averroes’ Doctrine of Immortality: A Matter of Controversy. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1984.
- Moreschini, Claudio. Hermes Christianus: The Intermingling of Hermetic Piety and Christian Thought. Translated by Patrick Baker. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.
- Papiernik, Joanna. Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance: Fifteenth-Century Sources on the Immortality of the Soul. London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
- Pearson, J. “Virgil’s ‘Divine Vision’ (Aeneid 4.238–44 and 6.724-51).” Classical Philology 56, no. 1 (January 1961): 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1086/364546.
- Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Translated by John Bostock and Henry T. Riley. Vol. 1. London: H. G. Bohn, 1855.
- Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia libri XXXVII. Edited by Ludwig von Jan and Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1967.
- Pluta, Olaf. “John Hennon’s Question Utrum anima rationalis sit immortalis.” In Ratio et superstitio: Essays in Honor of Graziella Federici Vescovini, edited by Giancarlo Marchetti, Orsola Rignani, and Valeria Sorge, 197–219. Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération internationale des instituts d’études médiévales, 2003.
- Polansky, Ronald M. Aristotle’s De anima. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551017.
- Pomponius Mela. Description of the World. Translated by F. E. Romer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
- Ramsey, J. T., ed. Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Rice, Eugene F. “The Humanist Idea of Christian Antiquity: Lefevre d’Etaples and His Circle.” In French Humanism, 1470–1600, edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer, 163–80. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1969.
- Robert, Aurélien. “Epicure et les épicuriens au Moyen Âge.” Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies 21 (2013): 3–46.
- Rutherford, David. “Lactantius Philosophus? Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance.” In Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters: In Honor of John Monfasani, edited by Alison Frazier and Patrick Nold, 446–91. Leiden: Brill, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004294653_015.
- Sallust. Catiline’s Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories. Translated by William W. Batstone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Simone, Franco. “Il pensiero francese del Rinascimento.” In Grande antologia filosofica: Il pensiero della rinascenza e della riforma (Protestantesimo e riforma cattolica), edited by Michele Federico Sciacca, 1–278. Vol. 6. Milan: Marzorati, 1964.
- Sondag, Gérard. Duns Scot: La métaphysique de la singularité. Paris: J. Vrin, 2005.
- Stevens, Linton C. “A Re-evaluation of Hellenism in the French Renaissance.” In French Humanism, 1470–1600, edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer, 181–96. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1969.
- Sullivan, Thomas. Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373–1500: A Biographical Register. Vol. 2, The Secular Clergy. Leiden: Brill, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004202702.i-636.
- Toussaint, Stéphane. “L’influence de Ficin à Paris et le Pseudo-Denys des Humanistes: Traversari, Cusain, Lefèvre d’Etaples. Suivi d’un passage inédit de Marsile Ficin.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 5, no. 2 (1999): 381–414. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24331710.
- Tracy, Theodore. “The Soul as Boatman of the Body: Presocratics to Descartes.” Diotima 7 (1979): 195–99.
- Tracy, Theodore. “The Soul/Boatman Analogy in Aristotle’s De anima.” Classical Philology 77, no. 2 (April 1982): 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1086/366689.
- Trinkaus, Charles. In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
- Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Edited by Carl Kempf. Berlin: Georgius Reimer, 1854.
- Valerius Maximus. Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome. Translated by Henry J. Walker. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004.
- Weitzman, Steven. Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300171679.
- William of Auvergne. The Soul. Translated by Roland J. Teske. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2000.