William of Ockham: Dialogus

 CRITICAL TEXT
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
ANALYSIS OF THE ARGUMENT
STUDIES

by John Kilcullen, George Knysh & John Scott


Introduction: Ockham and the Dialogus.
Method of referring to sections of Dialogus.
Plan of the Dialogus


PRINTED VOLUMES

A critical edition of the Latin text of the whole Dialogus has now been published in print in the British Academy series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi:

1 Dial. 1-5, ABMA vol. 35
1 Dial. 6, ABMA
vol. 41
1 Dial. 7, ABMA
vol. 42
2 Dial., ABMA
vol. 20
3.1 Dial., ABMA
vol. 20
3.2 Dial., ABMA
vol. 33
English translation of 1 Dial. 1-5 and Against John chs. 5-16, ABMA vol. 43

Editorial policy followed in making the critical edition
Descriptions of manuscripts and incunabula
on which the edition was based.
Coherence of the critical edition


TRANSLATION

The whole Dialogus has also been translated into English, and some of it into German (here, here, here and here) and Italian.

Some English translation is included in William of Ockham, 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other writings (Cambridge, 1995), some in 
ABMA vol. 43. English translation of the rest is linked to the following Analysis of the Dialogus.


ANALYSIS (linked to translation) OF THE DIALOGUS

1 Dial. 1-5
1 Dial. 6
1 Dial. 7
2 Dial.
3.1 Dial.
3.2 Dial.


STUDIES

Theologians vs canonists on heresy
Ockham and infallibility
Ockham's political writings
Ockham and Marsilius
Ockham's philosophy and theology

Relationships among manuscripts and editions
Omissions or additions? Some passages found in MSS of the A and B groups and not in E
Significant omissions




TEXTUAL PROBLEMS, TRANSCRIPTIONS OF WITNESSES, COLLATIONS

1 Dial. 1-5
1 Dial. 6 and 7

2
Dial.
3.1 Dial.

3.2 Dial.



COMPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Tabula super Dialogum in OxAvVfVc
Chapter headings in Ox
Chapter headings in Ly
Translations of papal documents relating to the Franciscan idea of poverty
(Exiit qui seminat, Exivi de Paradiso, Quia nonnunquam, Ad conditorem, Cum inter nonnullos, Quia quorundam, Quia vir reprobus)



Note: Most of this website was formerly located at
http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/