Medieval Bibliography #6: Thomas Aquinas & Scholastic Theology

1. THOMAS AQUINAS: TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS

Latin Texts: The critical edition of Thomas Aquinas's writing is the so-called Leonine edition: Sancti Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici Opera omnia iussu Leonis XIII.O.M. edita., cura et studio fratrum praedictorum (Rome: 1882- ), 26 volumes to date. There are also a number of critical editions of individual works published Marietti in Turin. The Latin texts are now available online at the Corpus Thomisticum:

:http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/iopera.html

At the end of Jean-Pierre Torrell's Saint Thomas Aquinas, there is a 30-page listing of the best versions of the Latin texts and of English translations.

Summa Theologiae: Thomas's masterpiece is, of course, the Summa Theologiae (Summary of Theology). Advanced students should use the Blackfriars edition:

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (Cambridge: Blackfriars / New York: McGraw Hill, 1964-1973). This 60-volume edition contains the complete Latin text of the Summa with an English translation on facing pages. Generally dependable, if often a somewhat free translation.

For beginning students, there are a variety of anthologies and summaries. I recommend the following:

Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, ed. and trans., Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 2005). This has an excellent selection of the major questions and articles from the Summa. Also valuable are Bauerschmidt's detailed commentaries in the footnotes.

Other selections from the Summa:

Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a, 75-89 , ed. Robert Pasnau (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002).

Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Law: being Summa Theologiae I-II; qq. 90-97, ed. Robert J. Henle (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993)

Summa Contra Gentiles: Thomas's other great work is the Summa contra gentiles. For the Latin text, see: S. Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici Liber de vertitate Catholicae fidei contra errores infidelium, qui dicitur Summa contra gentiles, ed. P. Marc, C. Pera, and P. Caramello, 3 vol. (Turin: 1961). The standard translation is:

Thomas Aquinas, On the Truth of the Catholic Faith, trans. Anton C. Pegis (Bk. 1), J.F. Anderson (Bk. 2), and Vernon J. Bourke (Bk. 3), C.J. O’Neill (Bk. 4) (1955; reprint: Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975).

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Among Thomas's earliest works was his massive commentary on the 4 volumes of Peter Lombard's Sentences (which was the standard theological textbook of the time): Scriptum super libros sententiarum magistri Petri Lombard Episcopi Parisiensis, 4 vol., eds. P Mandonnet and M.F. Moos (Paris: 1929-1947). Selections from this have recently been translated:

Thomas Aquinas, On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, trans. Peter A. Kwasniewski, Thomas Bolin, and Joseph Bolin, Thomas Aquinas in Translation series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008)

Compendium of Theology: This is Thomas's brief (and incomplete) summa.

Thomas Aquinas, Compendium of Theology, trans. Richard J. Regan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Latin text: Compendium theologiae ad fratrem Raynaldum, Leonine, vol. 42, ed. G. de Grandpré (1979).

Disputed Questions:

Thomas Aquinas, On Evil, trans. Richard J. Regan; ed. Brian Davies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). See also: Thomas Aquinas, On Evil: Disputed Questions, trans. John A. Osterle and Jean T. Osterle (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De malo, Leonine vol. 23:83-191, ed. P.-M.J. Gils (1982).

Thomas Aquinas, Truth, trans. Robert W. Mulligan (Vol. 1: qq. 1-9); James V. McGlynn (vol. 2: qq. 10-20), Robert W. Schmidt (vol. 3: 21-29) (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1952-1954; reprint: Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De veritate, Leonine 22, 3 vol., ed. A. Dondaine (1970-1976).

Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Virtue, ed. and trans. Jeffrey Hause and Claudia Eisen Murphy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010). See also: Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on the Virtues, trans. E.M. Atkins and Thomas Williams, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De virtutibus, in Quaestiones disputatae, eds. P. Bazzi et al. (Turin, 1949), vol. 2:707-828.

Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibetal Questions 1 and 2, Mediaeval Sources in Translation 27, trans. Sandra Edwards (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1983). Latin text: Quaestiones de quodlibet I-XII, Leonine, vol. 25, ed. R.-A. Gauthier (1996).

Thomas Aquinas, On the Power of God, trans. English Dominicans (Westminster: Christian Classics, 1952). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De potentia. In Quaestiones disputatae, eds. P. Bazzi et al. (Turin: 1949), vol. 2: 7-276.

Thomas Aquinas, Questions on the Soul, trans. James H. Robb, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation 27 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1984). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De anima, Leonine 24/1, ed. B.-C. Bazan (1996).

S.C. Seiner-Wright, trans. St. Thomas Aquinas: On Creation [Quaestiones Disputatae De Potentia Dei, Q. 3], Thomas Aquinas in Translation series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011).

Biblical Commentaries:

Thomas Aquinas, The Literal Exposition on Job: A Scriptural Commentary concerning Providence, Classics in Religious Studies 7., trans. A. Damico. (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1989). Latin text: Expositio super Job ad litteram, Leonine, vol. 26, ed. A. Dondaine (1965).

Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, 4 vol. (1841; reprint Saint Austin Press, 1997). Latin text: Catena aurea in quatuor Evangelica, ed. A. Guarienti (Turin: 1953).

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, Part I (Chapters 1-7), trans. James A. Weisheipl and Fabian R. Larcher, Aquinas Scripture Series, vol. 4 (Albany, NY: Magi Books, 1980). Latin text: Lectura super Ioannem, ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1952)

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Saint Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians and the letter to the Philippians, trans., F.R. Larcher and Michael Duffy, Aquinas Scripture series, vol. 3 (Albany, NY: Magi, 1969). Latin Text: Expositio et Lectura super Epistolas Pauli Apostoli, 2 vols., ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1953).

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, trans. F.R. Larcher, Aquinas Scipture series, vol. 1 (Albany, NY: Magi, 1966). Latin text: Expositio et Lectura super Epistolas Pauli Apostoli, 2 vols., ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1953).

Commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius & Other Texts:

Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas Aquinas: Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, trans. C.I. Litzinger, 2 vols. (Chicago: 1964; reprint Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1993). Latin text: Sententia Libri Ethicorum, Leonine 47 (2 vol.), ed. R.-A. Gauthier (1984).

Thomas Aquinas,Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, trans. J.P. Rowan, 2 vol. (Chicago: 1961; reprint: Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1995). Latin text: Sententia super Metaphysicam, ed. M.-R. Cathala and R. Spiazzi (Turin: 1952).

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's Phyiscs, trans. Richard J. Blackwell, Richard J. Spath, and W. Edmund Thirlkel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963; reprint: Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1999). Latin text: Sententia super Physicam, Leonine 2 (1884).

Thomas Aquinas, An Exposition of the On the Hebdomads of Boethius, trans. Janice L. Schultz and Edward A Synan (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 2001). Latin text: Expositio libri Boetii De ebdomadibus, Leonine 50, ed. P.-M. J. Gils (1992), pp. 267-282.

Thomas Aquinas, Faith, Reason, and Theology. Questions I-IV of His Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius, trans. Armand Maurer (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987). Latin text: Super Boetium De Trinitate, Leonine 50, ed. P.-M. J. Gils (1992), pp. 75-171.

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Book of Causes, trans. Vincent A. Guagliardo, Charles R. Hess, and Richard C. Taylor (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 1996). Latin text: Super librum De causis, ed. C. Pera (Turin: 1955).

Other Treatises, Liturgical Works & Sermons:

Nicholas Ayo, trans. The Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles’ Creed (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988). Latin text: Collationes super Credo in Deum.

Mark-Robin Hoogland, trans., Thomas Aquinas, The Academic Sermons, Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, vol. 11 (Washington, DC: Catholic Univeristy of America Press, 2010).

Ralph M. McInerny, ed. and trans., Aquinas Against the Averroists: On There Being only One Intellect (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1993). Latin text: De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas, Leonine 43: 291-314.

Thomas Aquinas, An Apology for the Religious Orders, trans. John Procter (London: Sands, 1902). Latin text: Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem, Leonine 41A, ed. H.-F. Dondaine (1970); and Contra doctrinam retrahentium a religione, Leonine 41C, ed. H.-F. Dondaine (1970).

Thomas Aquinas, The Religious State, the Episcopate, and the Priestly Office, trans. John Procter (St. Louis: 1903 / London: Sands, 1902). Latin text: De perfectione spiritualis vitae, Leonine 41B, ed. H.-F. Dondaine (1970).

Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence, trans. Armand Augustine Maurer, 2^nd ed. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1968). Latin text: De ente et essentia, Leonine 43 (1976), pp. 369-381.

Joseph Bobik, ed. and trans., Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements: A Translation and Interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

Cyril Vollert, Lottie H. Kendzierski, and Paul M. Byrne, trans., St. Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant, St. Bonaventure: “On the Eternity of the World.”, Medieval Philosphical Texts in Translation 16 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1964).

Anthologies:

Mary T. Clark, An Aquinas Reader (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1972).

R.W. Dyson, ed., Thomas Aquinas: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 2002).

Timothy McDermott, trans., Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosophical Writings, Oxford World Classics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Simon Tugwell, ed., Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, (New York: Paulist Press, 1988).

2. THOMAS AQUINAS: STUDIES OF HIS LIFE & THOUGHT

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas: Vol. 1: The Person and His Work, trans. Robert Royal (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1996). Jean-Pierre Torrell is the leading contemporary expert on Thomas's life and work. He does a superb job of setting Thomas in his historical context, both its religious and its academic dimensions. Too often in the English-speaking world, Thomas has been treated as philosopher overly indebted to Aristotle. Torrell does much to correct such misconceptions by highlighting the full range of Thomas' work, such as his biblical commentaries. This volume is the place to start one's study.

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Aquinas’s Summa: Background, Structure, and Reception, trans.
Benedict M. Guevin (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2005). This volume concentrates on the structures, sources, and deeper design of Thomas's most famous work, Summa Theologiae.

Brian Davies and Eleanore Stump, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, series: Oxford Handbooks on Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) hardcover, $150. NEW. A major new overview of the life and work of Thomas.

Steven C. Boguslawski, Thomas Aquinas on the Jews: Insights into His Commentary on Romans 9-11, Studies in Judaism and Christianity (New York: Paulist Press, 2008).

Corey L. Barnes, Christ’s Two Wills in Scholastic Thought: The Christology of Aquinas and Its Historical Contexts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012) hardcover, $85. NEW.

Leonard Boyle, The Setting of the Summa Theologiae (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1982). This is one of classics of Thomist studies, exploring the context of Orvieto and Rome, leading Thomas to create the Summa.

Leonard Boyle, “The Setting of the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas—Revisited,” in Stephen J. Pope, ed., The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, Moral Tradition Series (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002), 1-16.

David Burrell, Aquinas: God and Action (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985)

David Burrell, Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).

Marie-Dominique Chenu, Toward Understanding St. Thomas, trans. A.M. Landry & D. Hughes (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1964). A classic. While dated in some respects, few works do better setting Thomas in historical (and academic) context.

Marie-Dominique Chenu, Aquinas and His Role in Theology, trans., Paul Philibert (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002).

Romanus Cessario, A Short History of Thomism (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005).

Romanus Cessario, The Godly Image: Christ and Salvation in Catholic Thought from Anselm to Aquinas (Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications, 1990).

Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Michael Dauphinais, Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002)

Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering, eds., Aquinas the Augustinian (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007).

Michael Dauphinais & Matthew Levering, eds., Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005).

Brian Davies, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Brian Davies, Aquinas, Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series (New York: Continuum, 2002).

Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Brian Davies, ed., Aquinas’s Summa theologiae: Critical Essays, Critical Essays on the Classics (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Brian Davies, ed., Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Rebecca K. DeYoung, Aquinas’ Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations, Moral Theory, and Theological Context (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).

Gregory T. Doolan, Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008).

Peter S. Eardley, Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed, Guides for the Perplexed (New York: T&T Clark / Continuum, 2010).

Leo Elders, The Philosophical Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Leiden: Brill, 1990).

Giles Emery, Trinity in Aquinas (Ypsilanti, MI: Sapientia Press, 2003) [French: La Trinité créatrice (Paris: Vrin, 1995)].

Giles Emery, The Trinitarian Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. Francesca Murphy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Rory Fox, Time and Eternity in Mid-Thirteenth Century Thought, Oxford Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Christopher A. Franks, He Became Poor: The Poverty of Christ and Aquinas’s Economic Teachings (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009).

Russell L. Friedman, Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Nicholas Healy, Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life, Great Theologians series (Aldershot / Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003).

John I. Jenkins, CSC, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Mark Jordan, Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers, Challenges in Contemporary Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).

Anthony Kenny, Aquinas, Past Masters (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Mind (London: Routledge, 1993).

Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Anthony Kenny, The Five Ways: St. Thomas Aquinas’ Proofs of God’s Existence (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980).

Fergus Kerr, ed., Contemplating Aquinas: On the Varieties of Interpretation (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

Fergus Kerr, After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).

Norman Kretzmann & Elenore Stump, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Carol Leget, Living with God: Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Life on Earth and 'Life' After Death (Leuven: Peeters, 1997).

Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology, Challenges in Contemporary Theology (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004).

Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais, Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012) paperback, $35. NEW.

Anthony J. Lisska, Aquinas’ Theory of Natural Law: An Analytical Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Nicholas E. Lombardo, The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2010).

Elizabeth Lowe, The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas: The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323, Studies in Medieval History and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Herbert McCabe, On Aquinas (New York: Continuum, 2008).

Herbert McCabe, God and Evil in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (New York: Continuum, 2010).

Ralph M. McInerny, A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Press, 1990).

Ralph M. McInerny, Praeambuli fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006).

John Milbank & Catherine Pickstock, Truth in Aquinas, Radical Orthodoxy (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Robert Miner, Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae : 1a2ae 22-48 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Aidan Nichols, Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Influence (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).

Thomas F. O’Meara, Thomas Aquinas Theologian (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).

Fran O'Rourke, Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).

Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologica, Ia 75-89 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Joseph Pilsner, The Specifications of Human Actions in St. Thomas Aquinas, Oxford Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2006).

Stephen J. Pope, ed., The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, Moral Tradition Series (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002). A valuable collection of essays, focusing
on the Secunda Pars of the Summa.

Thomas Ryan, Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms, Studies in Spirituality and Theology 6 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000).

John Rziha, Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2009).

Daniel Schwartz, Aquinas on Friendship, Oxford Philosophical Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Michael Sherwin, By Knowledge and by Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005)

Eleonore Stump, Aquinas, Argument of the Philosophers, (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas: Vol. 2: Spiritual Master (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2003).

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Le Verbe Incarné en ses mysteres, 3 vol. (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2002). A commentary on the Tertia Pars, qq. 1-26, of the Summa.

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. Bernhard Blankenhorn (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011).

Rik Van Nieuwenhove & Joseph Wawrykow, eds., The Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

Rudi A. te Velde, Aquinas on God: The ‘Divine Science’ of the Summa Theologiae, Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2006).

Joseph P. Wawrykow, ed., The Westminster Handbook to Thomas Aquinas (Westminster John Knox, 2005).

Ian Wei, Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris: Theologians and the University, c. 1100-1330 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) hardcover, $110. NEW.

Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, and John P. Yocum, eds., Aquinas on Scripture: An Introduction to His Biblical Commentaries (London / New York: T&T Clark, 2005).

Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, and John P. Yocum, eds., Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction (London / New York: T&T Clark, 2004).

J.A. Weisheipl, Friar Thomas D’Aquino: His Life, Thought, and Work (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1984 / original, 1974).

A.N. Williams, The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

John F. Wippel, The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being, Monographs of the Society for Medieval and Renassance Philosophy, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000).

John F. Wippel, Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II, rev. ed., Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 47 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007).

3. MEDIEVAL LITURGY & SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY

Texts & Translations:

Lanfranc of Canterbury, On the Body and Blood of the Lord & On the Truth of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist,, Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, vol. 10, trans. Mark C. Valliancourt (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2009).

Studies:

Gary Macy, The Theologies of the Eucharist in the Early Scholastic Period (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). A valuable in-depth study of the development of the doctrine of real presence. It covers the period from Berengar to the eve of Lateran IV.

David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

Paul Bradshaw and Maxwell Johnson, The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012) paperback, $40.NEW.

Marilyn McCord Adams, Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Margot E. Fassler & Rebecca A. Baltzer, eds., The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold, Paul Bradshaw, eds. The Study of Liturgy, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Joseph A. Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development, 2 vol.(Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1986; reprint of 1955 edition). A classic.

Theodor Klauser, A Short History of the Western Liturgy, revised ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Lizette Larson-Miller, ed., Medieval Liturgy: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1997).

Karin Maag & John D. Witvliet, eds., Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Change & Continuity in Religious Practice (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)

Gary Macy, Treasures from the Storeroom: Medieval Religion and the Eucharist (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999).

Nathan Mitchell, Cult and Controversy: the Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass (Collegeville, MI: Liturgical Press, 1982).

Elizabeth F. Rogers, Peter Lombard and the Sacramental System (Merrick, NY: Richwood Publishing, 1976).

Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: the Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Cyrille Vogel, Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction to the Sources, trans. William Storey & Niels K. Rasmussen (Washington: Pastoral Press, 1986).

4. DANTE: TEXTS & STUDIES

Robert Pinsky, trans. The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (New York: Noonday Press, 1996). Robert Pinsky, the former poet laureate of the United States, offers here a fascinating example of what happens when a top-notch poet rather a scholar does the translating.

W.S. Merwin, trans. Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation (New York: Knopf, 2001). Merwin, like Pinsky, is one of the leading contemporary American poets. He also happens to have spent much of his career translating works from romance languages. This edition, like Pinsky’s translation of the Inferno, shows what happens when translation is done by a skilled poet.

Rachel Jacoff, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). A valuable set of introductory essays by leading contemporary specialists on Dante. A good place to start.

Theodore J. Cachy, ed., Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).

John Freccero, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986).

Manuele Gragnolati, Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture, ND Devers Series in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Press, 2005).

Nick Havely, Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Richard Lansing, The Dante Encyclopedia (New York / London: Routledge, 2010).

R.W.B. Lewis, Dante, Penguin Lives (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).

Franco Masciandaro, Dante as Dramatist: The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).

Allen Mandelbaum, trans. Dante: The Divine Comedy, 3 volumes (New York: Bantam Classics, 1984). Mandelbaum’s translation uses a fluent unrhymed free verse; English & Italian on facing pages.

Ralph McInerny, Dante and the Blessed Virgin (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).

Vittorio Montimaggi and Matthew Traherne, eds., Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, ND Devers Studies in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).

John A. Scott, Understanding Dante, ND Devers Series in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

Charles H. Taylor & Patricia Finely, Images of the Journey in Dante’s Divine Comedy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

Winthrop Wetherbee, The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets, ND Devers Series in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2008).