1st Edition
The Will Discourse in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Michael W. Dunne and Monika Michałowska
1. Individual and Common Intentions: The Role of the Will in the Institution of Human Language and Sacramental Signs in the Late Middle Ages
Claudia Appolloni
2. Marguerite Porete on the Will Pascale Bermon
3. The Effort of the Will in Richard Middleton’s Sentences Commentary
Michael Szlachta
4. Instants of Nature and Formalities: The Structure of the Will according to Francis Meyronnes
Sylvain Roudaut
5. The Power to Do Otherwise in Fourteenth-Century Philosophy: A First Approximation
Martin Pickavé
6. Do I Really Want It? Walter Burley on Choosing Virtue and Vice in his Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics
Marek Gensler
7. Richard FitzRalph on Whether Cognition Necessitates Volition: Finding a Middle Way
Michael W. Dunne
8. Adam Wodeham on the Joy of Knowledge and of Being in Different Mental States
Lydia Deni Gamboa
9. Richard Kilvington on Ethical and Theological Objects and Changes: When Ethics Meets Physics and Geometry
Monika Michałowska
10. The Physical Modelling of the Will in Robert Halifaxʼs Questions on the Sentences, Question 6
Edit Anna Lukács
11. To Will or Not to Will, Is That the Question? John Buridan’s Theory of the Will, Its Being, and Its Acts
Valeria Buffon
12. Power, Transcendence, and the Trinity: The Formal Distinction between the Will and the Intellect in John Ripa
Andrea Nannini
13. In Perfect Conformity to God’s Will Lies Our Freedom: Teresa of Ávila
Kateřina Kutarňová
Index of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Names
Index of Modern Names
Biography
Monika Michałowska is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź, Poland. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (2016; 2021; 2023) and Richard FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias (2025, with Michael W. Dunne). She has coedited (with Edit Anna Lukács) a volume on Calculatory ethics, Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century (2024).
Michael W. Dunne is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research has focused on Oxford thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Among his recent publications is Peter of Ireland, Writings on Natural Philosophy (2023), and he has coedited (with Simon Nolan) A Companion to Richard FitzRalph, Fourteenth-Century Scholar, Archbishop, and Polemicist (2023).
