William of Alnwick in the Scene Between Theology and Metaphysics

The history of late medieval thought cannot be aimed at an inevitable decline without committing a clear methodological error. Therefore it is necessary to change the lenses to see the object in its novelty: the thought of John Duns Scotus and the thought of William of Ockham, which open the transition of the fourteenth century. Between Scotus and Ockham stands William of Alnwick whose full autonomy and intellectual greatness this book shows. Alnwick is not Scotus’ pupil but his colleague when they were both following Gonsalvus of Spain’s courses in Paris, and Alnwick is master of John of Reading and Ockham at Oxford. This book has the merit of illuminating the greatness of Alnwick’s intellectual autonomy through a very thorough and extensive examination into Alnwick’s texts, the tacit or declared sources and the consequent intellectual debate among contemporaries and immediate successors, tat is the entire scene in which Alnwick’s thought acquires its full identity. This scene revolve