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The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing.

Trade Review
"The book makes an important scholarly contribution. Thijssen puts academic censures in the context of ecclesiastical investigations of heresy and brings together the latest research on a number of specific Parisian cases and on the problem of academic censure." * W. J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin, Madison *

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Suppression of False Teaching
2. The Condemnation of March 7, 1277
3. False Teaching at the Arts Faculty: The Ockhamist Statute of 1340 and Its Prelude
4. Nicholas of Autrecourt and John of Mirecourt: Censure at the Faculty of Theology in the Fourteenth Century
5. Academic Freedom and Teaching Authority
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris

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    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 29/01/1998
    ISBN13: 9780812233186, 978-0812233186
    ISBN10: 0812233182
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    Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing.

    Trade Review
    "The book makes an important scholarly contribution. Thijssen puts academic censures in the context of ecclesiastical investigations of heresy and brings together the latest research on a number of specific Parisian cases and on the problem of academic censure." * W. J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin, Madison *

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    1. The Suppression of False Teaching
    2. The Condemnation of March 7, 1277
    3. False Teaching at the Arts Faculty: The Ockhamist Statute of 1340 and Its Prelude
    4. Nicholas of Autrecourt and John of Mirecourt: Censure at the Faculty of Theology in the Fourteenth Century
    5. Academic Freedom and Teaching Authority
    Conclusion
    List of Abbreviations
    Notes
    Selected Bibliography
    Index

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