Abstract

It is seven hundred years since Peter of John Olivi's death, and all of modernity has forgotten his legacy. All? Well, not entirely. One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the forces of oblivion. While the empire of English-language scholarship has largely let Olivi's creative and influential work go unedited, untranslated, and unstudied, this hearty band of French scholars has persisted in exploring the fundamentals of his thought.This latest contribution focuses on some of the most innovative and foundational features of Olivi's natural philosophy, revolving around the causal relationships that substances hold to one another. This is not, however, exactly a book on Olivi's theory of...