Bibliographical and Biographical Studies

A full bibliography is included in Teske 2006.

• Ottman, Jennifer R., 2005, “List of Manuscripts and Editions”, in Morenzoni and Tilliette 2005, pp. 375–399. The most up-to-date listing of William’s works. (Scholar)
• Valois, Noël, 1880, Guillaume d’Auvergne, évêque de Paris (1228–1249): Sa vie et ses ouvrages, Paris: Picard. An old but still standard work. (Scholar)

Primary Texts in Latin

• Opera homiletica, 2010–2013, Franco Morenzoni (ed.), 4 vols., Turnhout: Brepols [vol. 1: Sermones de tempore, I–CXXXV (CCCM 230); vol. 2: Sermones de tempore, CXXXVI–CCCXXIII (CCCM 230A); vol. 3: Sermones de sanctis (CCCM 230B); vol. 4: Sermones de communi sanctorum et de occasionibus (CCCM 230C)]. Critical edition of all sermons attributable to William. (Scholar)
• [OO] Opera omnia, 1674, 2 vols., ed. F. Hotot, with Supplementum, ed. Blaise Le Feron, Orléans-Paris; reprinted Frankfurt am Main: Minerva, 1963. This edition remains the standard text for a large number of William’s writings. Available online from the links listed below.
• Bülow, Georg (ed.), 1897, Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele nebst einem Anhange, enthaltend die Abhandlung des Wilhelm von Paris (Auvergne) De immortalitate animae (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, II, 3), Münster: Aschendorff. An edition of De immortalitate animae. Bülow’s attribution of this work to Dominicus Gundissalinus is now generally rejected. (Scholar)
• Corti, Guglielmo (ed.), 1966, Il Tractatus de gratia di Guglielmo d’Auvergne, Rome: Lateran University, 1966. An edition of De gratia et libero arbitrio. (Scholar)
• O’Donnell, J. Reginald (ed.), 1946a, “Tractatus Magistri Guillelmi Alvernensis De bono et malo”, Mediaeval Studies, 8: 245–299. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1954, “Tractatus secundus Guillelmi Alvernensis De bono et malo”, Mediaeval Studies, 16: 219–271. This work is also known as De paupertate spirituali. (Scholar)
• Switalski, Bruno (ed.), 1976, De Trinitate, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)

Primary Texts in Modern Translation

The following books all contain useful detailed outlines of the contents of the works translated.

• Brenet, Jean-Baptiste (trans.), 1998, De l’âme (VII, 1–9), Paris: Vrin. French translation of parts of De anima. (Scholar)
• Teske, Roland J. (trans.), 1991, The Immortality of the Soul (Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 30), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of De immortalitate animae. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998a, The Universe of Creatures (Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 35), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of extensive selections from parts two and three of the first principal part of De universo. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000a, The Soul (Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 37), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of De anima. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, The Providence of God Regarding the Universe (Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 43), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of part three of the first principal part of De universo. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009a, On the Virtues (Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation 45), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of De virtutibus. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, Selected Spiritual Writings: Why God Became Man; On Grace; On Faith (Mediaeval Sources in Translation 50), Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Translation of Cur Deus homo, De gratia, and De fide. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013a, On Morals (Mediaeval Sources in Translation 55), Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Translation of De moribus. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013b, Rhetorica divina, seu ars oratoria eloquentiae divinae (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 17), Paris/Leuven/Walpoe, MA: Peeters. Latin text and English translation. (Scholar)
• Teske, Roland J., and Francis C. Wade (trans.), 1989, The Trinity, or the First Principle (Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 28), Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. Translation of De Trinitate. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Barnes, Corey L., 2020, “Providence and Causality in the Summa Halensis”, in Lydia Schumacher (ed.), The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 89–106. For William on providence, see pp. 89–94 [Barnes 2020 available online]. (Scholar)
• Bazán, B. Carlos, 1969, “Pluralisme de formes ou dualisme de substances?”, Revue philosophique de Louvain, 67: 30–73. (Scholar)
• Bernstein, Alan E., 2005, “William of Auvergne and the Cathars”, in Morenzoni and Tilliette 2005, pp. 271–289. (Scholar)
• Bertolacci, Amos, 2012, “On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus: An Attempt at Periodization”, in Dag N. Hasse and Amos Bertolacci (eds.), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 197–223. (Scholar)
• Black, Winston, 2013, “William of Auvergne on the Dangers of Paradise: Biblical Exegesis Between Natural Philosophy and Anti-Islamic Polemic”, Traditio, 68: 233–258. (Scholar)
• Caster, Kevin J., 1996a, “The Distinction between Being and Essence according to Boethius, Avicenna, and William of Auvergne”, The Modern Schoolman, 73: 309–332. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996b, “The Real Distinction between Being and Essence according to William of Auvergne”, Traditio, 51: 201–223. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996c, “William of Auvergne’s Adaptation of Ibn Gabirol’s Doctrine of the Divine Will”, The Modern Schoolman, 74: 31–42. (Scholar)
• Cesalli, Laurent, 2005, “Guillaume d’Auvergne et l’enunciabile: La solution profane d’un problème théologique”, in Morenzoni and Tilliette 2005, pp. 117–136. (Scholar)
• Corti, Guglielmo, 1968, “Le sette parte del Magisterium divinale et sapientiale di Guglielmo di Auvergne”, in Studi e ricerche di scienze religiose in onore dei santi apostoli Petro et Paulo nel XIX centenario del loro martirio, Rome: Lateran University, pp. 289–307. (Scholar)
• Davis, Leo D., 1973, “Creation according to William of Auvergne”, in Gerard G. Steckler and Leo D. Davis (eds.), Studies in Mediaevalia and Americana, Essays in Honor of William Lyle Davis, S.J., Spokane: Gonzaga University Press, pp. 51–75. (Scholar)
• de Mayo, Thomas, 2007, The Demonology of William of Auvergne: By Fire and Sword, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. (Scholar)
• de Vaux, Roland, 1934, Notes et textes sur l’avicennisme latin aux confins des XII^e et XIII^e siècles, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
• Fischer, Katrin, 2015, “Avicenna’s ex-uno-Principle in William of Auvergne’s De Trinitate”, Quaestio, 15: 423–32. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Avicenna’s Influence on William of Auvergne’s Theory of Efficient Causes”, in Dag N. Hasse and Amos Bertolacci (eds.), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 371–396. (Scholar)
• Gilson, Etienne, 1926, “Pourquoi saint Thomas a critiqué saint Augustin”, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, 1: 5–127. (Scholar)
• –––, 1946, “La notion d’existence chez Guillaume d’Auvergne”, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, 21: 55–91. (Scholar)
• Grant, Lindy, 2016, Blanche of Castile: Queen of France, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Contains remarks on William’s relationship with the Capetian court. (Scholar)
• Grice, Deborah, 2020, Church, Society and University: The Paris Condemnation of 1241/4, London/New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Hasse, Dag N., 2000, Avicenna’s De anima in the Latin West: The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul, 1160–1300, London/Turin: The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore. (Scholar)
• Iribarren, Isabel, 2017, “L’Empyrée et ses habitants au Moyen Âge”, Revue des sciences religieuses, 91(2): 181–192 [Iribarren 2017 available online].
• Jüssen, Gabriel, 1975, “Wilhelm von Auvergne und die Entwicklung der Philosophie im Übergang zur Hochscholastik”, in Wolfgang Kluxen (ed.), Thomas von Aquin im philosophischen Gespräch, Freiburg/Munich: Alber, pp. 185–203. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, “Wilhelm von Auvergne und die Transformation der scholastischen Philosophie im 13. Jahrhundert”, in Jan P. Beckmann et al. (eds.), Philosophie im Mittelalter: Entwicklungslinien und Paradigmen, Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 141–164. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, “Die Tugend und der gute Wille: Wilhelm von Auvergnes Auseinandersetzung mit der aristotelischen Ethik”, in B. Carlos Bazán, Eduardo Andújar and Léonard G. Sbrocchi (eds.), Les philosophies morales et politiques au Moyen Âge: Actes du IXe Congrès international de Philosophie Médiévale, Ottawa, du 17 au 22 août 1992, vol. 2, New York/Ottawa/Toronto: Legas, pp. 709–722; reprinted in Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 102, 1995: 20–32. (Scholar)
• Kramp, Josef, 1920, “Des Wilhelm von Auvergne Magisterium Divinale”, Gregorianum, 1: 538–613. (Scholar)
• –––, 1921, “Des Wilhelm von Auvergne Magisterium Divinale”, Gregorianum, 2: 42–103, 174–195. (Scholar)
• Laumakis, John A., 1999, “The Voluntarism of William of Auvergne and Some Evidence to the Contrary”, The Modern Schoolman, 76: 303–312. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “William of Auvergne on the Human Being”, in Richard C. Taylor, David Twetten, and Michael Wreen (eds.), Tolle Lege: Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland. J. Teske, S.J., Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, pp. 303–320. (Scholar)
• Lewis, Neil, 1995, “William of Auvergne’s Account of the Enuntiabile: Its Relation to Nominalism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Truths”, Vivarium, 33: 113–136. (Scholar)
• Marrone, Steven P., 1983, William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste: New Ideas of Truth in the Early Thirteenth Century, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “William of Auvergne and Aristotle on Knowing”, in Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Alexander Fidora and Pia Antolic-Piper (eds.), Erkenntnis und Wissenschaft/Knowledge and Science: Probleme der Epistemologie in der Philosophie des Mittelalters/Problems of Epistemology in Medieval Philosophy, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 143–159. (Scholar)
• Masnovo, Amato, 1929, “Guglielmo d’Auvergne e l’università di Parigi dal 1229 al 1231”, Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, 10: 310–355. (Scholar)
• –––, 1946, Da Guglielmo d’Auvergne a S. Tommaso d’Aquino, 3 vols., 2nd edition, Milan: Vita et Pensiero. (Scholar)
• Miller, Michael, 1998, “William of Auvergne on Primary and Secondary Qualities”, The Modern Schoolman, 75: 265–277. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, “William of Auvergne and the Aristotelians: The Nature of a Servant”, in John Inglis (ed.), Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: In Islam, Judaism and Christianity, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, pp. 263–276. (Scholar)
• Moody, Ernest A., 1975, “William of Auvergne and His Treatise De anima”, in Id. Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Science, and Logic, Collected Papers 1933–1969, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–109. (Scholar)
• Morenzoni, Franco, 2007, “Le corpus homilétique de Guillaume d’Auvergne, évêque de Paris”, Sacris Erudiri, 46: 287–369. (Scholar)
• Morenzoni, Franco, and Jean-Yves Tilliette (eds.), 2005, Autour de Guillaume d’Auvergne († 1249), Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
• O’Donnell, J. Reginald, 1946b, “The Notion of Being in William of Auvergne”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 21: 156–165. (Scholar)
• Pitour, Thomas, 2011, Wilhelm von Auvergnes Psychologie: Von der Rezeption des aristotelischen Hylemorphismus zur Reformulierung der Imago-Dei-Lehre Augustins, Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag. (Scholar)
• Reilly, James P., 1953, “Thomas of York on the Efficacy of Secondary Causes”, Mediaeval Studies, 15: 225–233. (Scholar)
• Reynolds, Philip L., 2016, How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments: The Sacramental Theology of Marriage from Its Medieval Origins to the Council of Trent, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. For William on marriage and on his moral exchange theory, see pp. 506–511 and 540–543. (Scholar)
• Rohls, Jan, 1980, Wilhelm von Auvergne und der mittelalterliche Aristotelismus: Gottesbegriff und aristotelische Philosophie zwischen Augustin und Thomas von Aquin, Munich: Kaiser. (Scholar)
• Rosheger, John P., 2002, “Is God a ‘What’? Avicenna, William of Auvergne, and Aquinas on the Divine Essence”, in John Inglis (ed.), Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: In Islam, Judaism and Christianity, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, pp. 277–296. (Scholar)
• Sannino, Antonella, 2004, “La dottrina della causalità nell’universo di Guglielmo d’Alvernia: Percorsi di lettura”, Studi filosofici, 27: 31–68. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Fato, necessitá e causalitá astrale in Guglielmo d’Alvernia”, Studi filosofici, 39: 31–47. (Scholar)
• Schindele, Stephan, 1900, Beiträge zur Metaphysik des Wilhelm von Auvergne, Munich: Kastner&Lossen. (Scholar)
• Silva, José Filipe, 2014, “Medieval Theories of Active Perception: An Overview”, in Id. and Mikko Yrjonsuuri (eds.), Active Perception in the History of Philosophy: From Plato to Modern Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 117–46. (Scholar)
• Smith, Lesley, 1992, “William of Auvergne and the Jews”, in Diana Wood (ed.), Christianity and Judaism. Papers Read at the 1991 Summer Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 107–117. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “William of Auvergne and the Law of the Jews and the Muslims”, in Thomas Heffernan and Thomas E. Burman (eds.), Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 123–142. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Slippers in Heaven: William of Auvergne Preaching to the Brethren”, in Lydia Schumacher (ed.), The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 285–298 [Smith 2020 available online]. (Scholar)
• Teske, Roland J., 1990, “The Identity of the Italici in William of Auvergne’s Discussion of the Eternity of the World”, Proceedings of the PMR Conference, 15: 191–203; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 53–63. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “William of Auvergne on De re and De dicto Necessity”, The Modern Schoolman, 69: 111–121; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 65–79. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993a, “William of Auvergne and the Manichees”, Traditio, 48: 63–75; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 81–99. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993b, “William of Auvergne’s Use of Avicenna’s Principle: ‘Ex Uno, Secundum Quod Unum, Non Nisi Unum’”, The Modern Schoolman, 71: 1–15; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 101–119. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994a, “The Will as King over the Powers of the Soul: Uses and Sources of an Image in the Thirteenth Century”, Vivarium, 32: 62–71. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994b, “William of Auvergne on the Eternity of the World”, The Modern Schoolman, 67: 187–205; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 29–52. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994c, “William of Auvergne on the Individuation of Human Souls”, Traditio, 49: 77–93; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 121–143. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995a, “William of Auvergne’s Arguments for the Newness of the Word”, Mediaevalia: Textos e Estudos, 7–8: 287–302; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 145–159. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995b, “William of Auvergne’s Rejection of the Agent Intelligence”, in William J. Carrol and John J. Furlong (eds.), Greek and Medieval Studies in Honor of Leo Sweeney, S.J., New York: Peter Lang, pp. 211–235. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Freedom of the Will in William of Auvergne”, in B. Carlos Bazán et al. (eds.), Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Medieval Philosophy, vol. 2, New York: Legas, pp. 932–938. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998b, “William of Auvergne on Philosophy as divinalis and sapientialis”, in Jan A. Aertsen and Andreas Speer (eds.), Was ist Philosophie in Mitteralter?, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 475–481. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998c, “William of Auvergne on the Relation between Reason and Faith”, The Modern Schoolman, 75: 279–291; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 179–194. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998d, “William of Auvergne and Plato’s World of Ideas”, Traditio, 55: 117–130; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 161–178. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, “William of Auvergne’s Debt to Avicenna”, in Jules L. Janssens and Daniel de Smet (eds.), Avicenna and His Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium. Leuven-Louvain-la-Neuve, September 8–September 11, 1999, Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 153–170; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 217–237. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000b, “William of Auvergne on Time and Eternity”, Traditio, 55: 125–141; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 195–215. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “William of Auvergne on the Various States of our Nature”, Traditio, 58: 201–218; reprinted in Teske 2006, pp. 239–253, and in Peter J. Weigel and Joseph G. Prud’homme (eds.), 2016, The Philosophy of Human Nature in Christian Perspective, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 65–81. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “William of Auvergne’s Spiritualist Conception of Man”, in Morenzoni and Tilliette 2005, pp. 35–53. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. A Collection of Papers by the Preeminent Student of William of Auvergne’s Thought. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009b, “William of Auvergne on the Virtues”, Modern Schoolman, 87: 35–49. (Scholar)
• Wei, Ian P., 2020, “William of Auvergne”, in Id., Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary between Humans and Animals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9–93. A detailed analysis on the role of animals and the relationship between animals and humans in De legibus and De universo. (Scholar)
• Weill-Parot, Nicolas, 2017, “Relatos de los poderes de las imágenes mágicas entre prescripción y prueba (siglos XII–XV)”, História revista, 22(1): 19–34 [Weill-Parot 2017 available online]. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Pouvoir de la magie astrale et ordre politique chez Guillaume d’Auvergne”, Quaestio, 19: 149–172. (Scholar)
• Weisheipl, James A., 1979, “Albertus Magnus and Universal Hylomorphism”, Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, 10: 239–260. (Scholar)
• Wippel, John F., 2003, “The Parisian Condemnations of 1270 and 1277”, in Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 65–73. (Scholar)
• Young, Spencer E., 2014, Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris: Theologians, Education and Society, 1215–1248, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. For William of Auvergne, see pp. 64–101. (Scholar)