William Duba

Curriculum vitae

Born in 1970; 1992 BA at Oberlin College (Ohio); 1994 MA in History at the University of Iowa; 2006 PhD in History at the University of Iowa, Thesis Title:
“Seeing God: Theology, Beatitude and Cognition in the Thirteenth Century”; 2017 Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Thesis Title: “The Forge of Doctrine: The Academic Year 1330–31 and the Rise of Scotism at the University of Paris”; Managing Editor, Fragmentology; Responsible for the “e-codices” and “Fragmentarium” platforms.

 

Domaines de recherche

Scotus, Scotism and medieval Franciscan thought; the history of medieval universities; Greeks and Latins in the Middle Ages; Digital Fragmentology.

 

Publications

Publications: with T. Suarez-Nani (introduction, text), E. Babey (v. 1–2), D. Carron (v. 3), and G. Etzkorn (text), Francisci de Marchia, Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum (Reportatio), v. 1–3, qq. 1–12, qq. 13–27, qq. 28–49 (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy series 3: Francisci de Marchia Opera Philosophica et Theologica), Leuven 2008, 2010, 2012; with Ch. Schabel, Vivarium 47:2–3 (2009), special volume on Geraldus Odonis, also published separately as Geraldus Odonis, Doctor Moralis and Franciscan Minister General, Leiden 2009; with M. Balard, C. Schabel, Actes de Famagouste du notaire génois Lamberto di Sambuceto (décembre 1299–septembre 1300) (Sources et études de l’histoire de Chypre 70), Nicosie 2012; with C. Schabel, Bullarium Hellenicum, Pope Honorius III’s Letters to Frankish Greece and Constantinople (1216–1227) (Mediterranean Nexus 1100–1700 3), Turnhout 2015; with R. L. Friedman and C. Schabel, Studies in Fourteenth-Century Intellectual History in Honor of William J. Courtenay, Leuven 2017; The Forge of Doctrine: The Academic Year 1330–31 and the Rise of Scotism at the University of Paris (Studia Sententiarum 2), Turnhout 2017; The Souls After Vienne: Franciscan Theologians’ Views on the Plurality of Forms and the Plurality of Souls, ca. 1315–30, in: Philosophical Psychology and the Other Disciplines, ed. by P. J.J.M. Bakker, S.W. de Boer, C. Leijenhorst, Leiden 2012, pp. 171–272; Three Franciscan Metaphysicians after Scotus: Antonius Andreae, Francis of Marchia, and Nicholas Bonet, in: The Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, ed. by F. Amerini, G. Galuzzo, Leiden 2014, pp. 413–493; Rebuilding the Stemma: Understanding the Manuscript Tradition of Francis of Marchia’s Commentaries on Book II of the Sentences, in: Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Issues, ed. by A. Speer et al. (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales. Bibliotheca 9), Leuven 2014, pp. 119–169; Bachelors and Masters at Paris in 1319: The lectio finalis of Landolfo Caracciolo, OFM, in: Miscellanea Mediaevalia 39 (2016), Schüler und Meister, ed. by A. Speer, T. Jeschke, pp. 315–370.

 

Conférences

2023

  • “Convertibility and Controversy, Hervaeus Natalis’s Reaction to Peter Auriol”, Hervé de Nédellec au 700e anniversaire de sa mort, la Sorbonne, Paris, 09–10.11.2023;
  • with C. Schabel, “Francesco d’Appignano on Instrumental Causality”, IX Convegno Internazionale su Fr. Francesco d’Appignano, Appignano del Tronto, 08–09.09.2023;
  • “’Veruptamen discordia est inter eius sequaces’. William of Alnwick among the Scotists of the 1320s”, William of Alnwick and the Early Scotistic Tradition, Giovinazzo, 05–06.06.2023;
  • “Fragments in Mediaş, Resurrecting Lost Libraries”, Closer to the Creator, Parish Archives and Libraries in Premodern Times (ca. 1350–1650), Casa Schuller, Mediaş, Romania;
  • “Nicholas Bonetus’ White-Tie Formalism”, Distinction and Identity in Late-Scholastic Thought and Beyond, 15–17.05.2023, Université Catholique de Louvain;
  • “Building a Fragmentological Database for the Next Decade”, Fragments and Fragmentariness in the Humanitiesand Cultural Heritage, University of Urbino, 08–10.05.2023;

Invited Lectures

  • “Fragmentology, Manuscripts and Digital Technologies”, four-hour lecture, Collegio Dottorale, Università di Macerata, 11.05.2023;
  • “Paris, 1240s, and the pseudo-Raoul de Colebruge”, Invited Lecture, NOTA Conference Series, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 28.03.2023;

Workshops

  • Invited Participant, Round Table, “Portale der Gedächtnisinstitutionen”, Archäologie der Handschrift. Erschliessung, Präsentation und Forschung im digitalen Raum”, 09–11.10.2023;
  • Presenter, Fragmentologie – Aktuelle Ansätze der wissenschaftlichen Analyse mittelalterlicher Handschriftenfragmente mit einem anwendungsorientierten Praxisteil zur digitalen Erschließung, Nachwuchs-workshop of the 28th Colloquium of the Wolfram von Eschenbach-Gesellschaft, led by Inci Bozkaya and Lena Stockburger, 13.09.2023;
  • Workshop Lead (assisted by Dr. Laura Albiero), “Digital Scholarly Cataloguing” for the Research Project Digital Explorations, Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library, P.I. Dr. N. Kivilcim Yavuz, Co-investigators, Prof. Emma Cayley, Jodie Double, Rob Fitzgerald, University of Leeds, 03–05.05.2023;
  • Organizer, Host, Fragmentarium Video Conferences, a monthly series of lectures on  Fragmentology, series 2, Spring 2023. (https,//www.youtube.com/channel/UCi-dRazqsoIDhr_QVbzIBjg).