Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries on the Summa and using it as a starting point for many theological and philosophical discussions. Some of the works of major authors such as Vitoria, Soto, Molina, Suarez and Arriaga are nothing more than commentaries on the Summa. This book is the first scholarly endeavour to investigate this commentary tradition. As it examines late scholasticism against its institutional backdrop and contains studies of manuscripts and texts unpublished, it will remain an authoritative source for the research of late scholasticism. Contributors: Igor Agostini (University of Salento), Monica Brinzei (CNRS-IRHT, Paris), William Duba (University of Fribourg), Matthew Gaetano (Hillsdale College), Helen Hattab (University of Houston), Lidia Lanza (University of Lisbon), Mauro Mantovani (Salesian Pontifical University), Daniel D. Novotny and Tomas Machula (University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice), Chris Schabel (University of Cyprus), Jean-Luc Solere (Boston College), Marco Toste (University of Fribourg), Andreas Wagner (Goethe University of Frankfurt), Ueli Zahnd (University of Geneva)

About the Author
Lidia Lanza is research fellow at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. Marco Toste is affiliated with the University of Fribourg.

Reviews

[...] overall the collection is impressive and all the contributions are of a high standard.
Dominic Ryan OP, New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1110, Mar 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12812

No fim desta algo inusitadamente longa recensao, creio que ficou bem claro todo o nosso apreco por esta tao relevante publicacao e acima de tudo pelo louvavel trabalho dos seus editores. Qualquer que seja a sua proveniencia - a teologia, a filo-sofia, a historia e a historia das ideias, o genero comentaristico, etc . - encontrara o/a leitor/a um rico manancial de informacoes e um opulento cadinho de pistas para fu-turas e cada vez mais aprofundadas pesquisas. Resta nos, por isso, deixar sem qual-quer reserva os parabens e votos de continuacao de tao notavel e competente inves-tigacao aos dois tao jovens investigadores, Lidia Lanza e Marco Toste.
Mario Santiago de Carvalho, Revista Filosofica de Coimbra - n.o 60 (2021), https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/rfc/article/view/10392/7567

A highly instructive, even outstanding, review article by the editors is followed by several detailed case studies.Benjamin Dahlke, Theologische Rundschau (ThR), Jahrgang 87 (2022) / Heft 2, S. 227-237 (11), DOI: 10.1628/thr-2022-0009

Trotzdem zeichnet es den Sammelband aus, eine jedenfalls bis ins fruhe 20. Jahrhundert einflussreiche Epoche der Philosophie und Theologie mit wichtigen Beispielen sehr kundig zu prasentieren und damit hoffentlich weitere Forschungen anzuregen. Bernhard Knorn SJ, Zeitschrift fur Theologie und Philosophie, Bd. 144 Nr. 3 (2022), DOI: 10.35070/ztp.v144i3.3839

AEusserlich uberzeugt der Band durch seine Kompaktheit und Struktur. Alle Beitrage liegen in zumeist sehr gutem Englisch vor; zudem achten die Herausgeber auf eine einheitliche Zitation der Summa Theologiae und anderer historischer Quellen. Die im Anhang befindlichen Indizes verwendeter Handschriften wie auch (vor-)moderner Autoren ermoeglichen den raschen Zugriff auf Detailergebnisse. Gabriel J. Theis OP, Wien, Archa Verbi 18 (2021).

Accanto a tutti gli altri meriti gia menzionati, un pregio indiscutibile del volume curato da Lidia Lanza e Marco Toste e il bilanciamento molto ben studiato, nell'analisi della tradizione dei commentari, tra le questioni metafisiche e quelle etico-giuridiche (per quanto le une e le altre compaiano, in questa stessa tradizione, in un quadro d'insieme che resta - com'e anche naturale che sia - squisitamente teologico). Maria Evelina Malgieri, "Quaestio", 22 (2022), 533-561, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.QUAESTIO.5.133425

The overall achievement of this volume shows that the tradition of commenting on the *Summa should be studied as a subject in its own right.* Joerg Alejandro Tellkamp, Renaissance Quarterly, 76(1), 316-317, https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.170

Overall, this collection of essays provides a sampling of the fruitful exchanges that 'Summa' commentators carried on within the centuries indicated. - Romanus Cessario, The Thomist, October 2023, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/907650

Le volume comporte deux parties complementaires. La premiere montre comment la Somme de theologie est devenue un texte qui fait autorite, comment surgissent ses commentaires et en quelle mesure cette tradition se rattache a la pensee medievale. La seconde partie comporte, en revanche, des cas d'etude qui montrent, a travers les differentes manieres de travailler des auteurs, comment cette tradition philosophique et theologique s'est constituee et a contribue a la pensee moderne. Les differences entre les commentateurs revelent une approche au texte variee et riche, qui justifie aussi le titre du recueil : il ne s'agit pas necessairement de thomistes, mais d'auteurs qui, a partir du texte de la Somme de theologie, elaborent des reflexions personnelles, parfois meme tres differentes des positions de l'ouvrage qu'ils commentent. Le volume ne porte directement ni sur l'etude de la reception de la Somme de theologie ni sur celle de la tradition thomiste pour elle-meme (p. 4). Les visees des editeurs, ainsi exposees au debut de l'ouvrage, contribuent a sa belle reussite intellectuelle. - A. O., Revue des Sciences philosophiques et theologiques,Tome 108 N Degrees 1 janv.-mars 2024

Book Information
ISBN 9789462702622
Author Lidia Lanza
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint Leuven University Press
Publisher Leuven University Press
Weight(grams) 790g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 26mm