Abstract
Abstract: In the first volume of his Religious Orders (1948), David Knowles commented on how mendicant texts (once thought “to lack all interest and significance”) had come to be seen as possessing a “keen and powerful intelligence” resembling that of Parmenides or Aristotle. In a contribution to The English Library before 1700 (1958), R. M. Wilson of Sheffield described Manipulus florum as “completed in 1306 by a certain Thomas of Ireland” and said no more. So, this Toronto volume is proof of an astonishing revolution. Writers formerly all but forgotten now receive minute investigation by scholars of international repute. The objective is praiseworthy. It makes the thoughts and feelings of the Middle Ages more familiar, above all as regards medieval attitudes to classical and patristic authorities.
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