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Today's episode, Frequently asked questions, Henry of Ghent.

In recent episodes I've been trying to show how misleading it is to think of Thomas Aquinas as the definitive thinker of the late 13th century,

never mind of medieval philosophy in general.

Sure he was original, brilliant, and in the long run very influential, but his staunch commitment to Aristotle made

him idiosyncratic, if not quite as controversial as some colleagues at the Paris Arts Faculty.

A figure who might better personify the intellectual climate in these decades would be Henry of Ghent.

Of course he's far less famous than Aquinas.

I recently asked someone whether they'd ever heard of him and got the response,

well I've heard of Henry and I've heard of Ghent but not Henry of Ghent.

Yet he was a major figure in his time. Though he was born earlier than Aquinas, Henry's long stint as Master of Theology came

after Aquinas's death in 1274, running from 1276 until just before Henry's death in 1293.

For evidence of his standing as a leading and more mainstream intellectual, we need only recall

the 1277 condemnations, where Aquinas may have been one of the targets, Henry of Ghent

was on the commission that drew up the list of banned teachings.

With Henry, we also have a leading exponent of the format that dominated philosophical

writings of the 13th century, the disputed question.

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