Eden Regained: William of Ockham and the Franciscan Return to Terrestrial Paradise

Abstract

This paper was written under the welcoming auspices of the George L. Mosse Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the academic year 2000-1. I wish to thank Prof. William J. Courtenay for his guidance and encouragement and Profs. John V. Fleming and William C. Jordan at Princeton University for careful readings and very helpful suggestions toward the final version. Prof. David Woodward (Madison) and Mr. Zur Shalev (Princeton) have walked me through the terra incognita of medieval cartography in a series of fruitful scholarly encounters.