Thomas of York (Franciscan)

Thomas of YorkThomas de Eboraco, Thomas Eboracensis. (b. c. 1220; d. before 1269) was an English Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher of the thirteenth century. He was associated with the Oxford Franciscan school.

He entered the Order of Friars Minor in 1242, and studied at the University of Oxford. He later was the leader of the Franciscan establishment at Cambridge.[https://web.archive.org/web/19970607200858/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAtho03.html Franciscan Schools of thought]

Along with Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, he was a major critic of the Parisian secular theologian William of Saint-Amour.Andrew G. Traver, 'Thomas of York’s Role in the Conflict Between Mendicants and Seculars at Paris,' Franciscan Studies 57 (1999): 1-24.

Works

  • Thomae Eboracensis, Sapientiale, Liber III, cap. 1-20, edited by Antonio Punzi, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2020.
  • Thomae Eboracensis, Sapientiale, Liber I, capp. 1.18, edited by Fiorella Retucci, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023.

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