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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.

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"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
      Published 29 January 1998
      ISBN-13 9780812233186
      978-0812233186
      ISBN-10 0812233182
      Also in:
      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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