Richard FitzRalph on the Will and Instantaneous Volition: A Critical Edition of Book I, Question 10 from Richard FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias . zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 137)

The volume offers a critical edition of a text by Richard FitzRalph, one of the most original 14th-century Oxonian thinkers. FitzRalph’s philosophical and theological ideas were enthusiastically adopted or fiercely challenged, consolidating his recognition at the universities of Oxford, Paris, and Italy.
For all this, his work remains relatively little-known today, an obscurity this book redresses by making a question on the will from FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias available to a larger readership. Besides, FitzRalph’s strongly voluntaristic position and analytical techniques derived from the natural sciences and logic are shown to place him close to the Oxford Calculators.

Monika Michałowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023).
Michael W. Dunne, Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Maynooth University. His research focuses on Irish thinkers of the Middle Ages and Oxford thought in the 13th and 14th centuries. He has co-edited A Companion to Richard FitzRalph (Brill, 2023).