Richard of Lavenham

Richard of Lavenham (fl. 1380) was an English Carmelite, known as a scholastic philosopher. He is now remembered for his approach to the problem of future contingents.[1][2]

Life

He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, and, after becoming a Carmelite friar at Ipswich, studied at the University of Oxford, where he is said to have graduated D.D.; but in the colophon to his tract against John Purvey he is called simply 'magister'.

Lavenham was later prior of the Carmelite house at Bristol.

Works

Lavenham enjoyed a reputation as a theologian and schoolman. John Bale gives a list of sixty-one treatises ascribed to him, De Villiers names sixty-two, and Davy sixty-three. In Sloane MS. 3899 (fourteenth century) there are twenty-four short treatises by Lavenham on logical subjects ('De Propositionibus,' 'De Terminis,' &c.). Other extant works ascribed to Lavenham are:

Among the other treatises given by De Villiers are 'Abbreviationes Bedæ' (it has been suggested that this is the abbreviation printed by Abraham Wheloc in his edition of Bede), 'Compendium Gualteri Reclusi' (perhaps Walter Hilton), 'De Fundatione sui Ordinis,' a treatise called 'Clypeus Paupertatis' (suggesting Lavenham had taken part in the controversy concerning evangelical poverty), a commentary on Aristotle's 'Ethics,' tracts on physics and astronomy ('De Cœlo et Mundo,' 'De Proprietatibus Elementorum'), together with 'Quæstiones,' sermons, and similar works.

References

Notes

  1. Dov M. Gabbay; John Woods (11 July 2006). Handbook of the History of Logic: Logic and the modalities in the twentieth century. Elsevier. pp. 463–4. ISBN 978-0-444-51622-0. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. Peter Øhrstrøm; Per Hasle (30 September 1995). Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence. Springer. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7923-3586-3. Retrieved 2 August 2012.

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Lavenham, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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