Richard Billingham and the Oxford Obligationes Texts: Restrictions on positio

This paper investigates a series of Oxford Obligationes texts, all of which can be associated with Richard Billingham. My study is based on eleven of the surviving manuscripts and two early printed texts. I focus on one aspect of their discussion, namely the rule for granting the initial positum of...

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Published in:Vivarium
Main Author: Ashworth, E. Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Vivarium
RelBib Classification:KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Richard Billingham Oxford obligationes positio sophismata
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Summary:This paper investigates a series of Oxford Obligationes texts, all of which can be associated with Richard Billingham. My study is based on eleven of the surviving manuscripts and two early printed texts. I focus on one aspect of their discussion, namely the rule for granting the initial positum of an obligational disputation of the type called positio, and the six restrictions that could be placed on that rule. I explain these restrictions with reference to several sophismata that were meant to illustrate the problems that the restrictions were intended to solve, and in particular, I discuss the fifth restriction ‘not inconsistent with the positum’. I also shed light on the final restriction, which has not always been well understood, namely the restriction ‘wherever there is no obligatio relevant to the positum’.
ISSN:1568-5349
Contains:In: Vivarium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685349-12341305