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Robert Kilwardby ( 1215 – 11 September 1279) was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and a cardinal. Kilwardby was the first member of a mendicant order to attain a high ecclesiastical office in the English Church.
Kilwardby crowned Edward I and his wife Eleanor as king and queen of England in August 1274, but otherwise took little part in politics. He instead concentrated on his ecclesiastical duties, including charity to the poor and donating to the Dominicans.Moorman Church Life p. 371
In 1278 Pope Nicholas III named Kilwardby Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina.Bellenger and Fletcher Princes of the Church p. 173 He then resigned Canterbury and left England, taking with him papers, registers and documents belonging to the see. He also left the see deep in debt again, after his predecessor had cleared the debt.Moorman Church Life, p. 173. While in theory this was a promotion, probably it was not, as the pope was unhappy with Kilwardby's support of efforts to resist the payment of papal revenues and with the lack of effort towards the reforms demanded at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274.Prestwich Edward I p. 249
He died in Italy in 1279, and was buried in the Dominican convent in Viterbo.
It has been alleged that Kilwardby was an opponent of Thomas Aquinas. In 1277 he prohibited the teaching of thirty theses, some of which have been thought to touch upon Thomas Aquinas' teaching. Recent scholars, however, such as Roland Hissette, have challenged this interpretation.Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders pp. 206–207
Writings on logic
Writings on natural philosophy
Writings on ethics
De tempore has been edited and translated by Alexander Broadie, and published as On Time and Imagination, Part 2: Introduction and Translation. A critical edition of De orto scientiarum was published by Albert G. Judy, for The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1976. A critical edition of the four volumes of Quaestiones in librum Sententiarum was published in five volumes in 1982–1993 by Elisabeth Gössmann, Gerhard Leibold, Richard Schenk and Johannes Schneider for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
The Notuel libri Priorum (on Aristotle's Prior Analytics), has been edited and translated by Paul Thom and John Scott (Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015; two volumes).
Kilwardby was also the author of a summary of the writings of the Church Fathers, arranged alphabetically, Tabulae super Originalia Patrum, edited by Daniel A. Callus (Bruges: De Tempel, 1948).
Reputation
Kilwardby's theological and philosophical views were summed up by David Knowles who said that he was a "conservative eclectic, holding the doctrine of seminal tendencies and opposing...the Aristotle doctrine of the unity of form in beings, including man."Knowles Evolution of Medieval Thought p. 249 Some sources state that he was the author of Summa Philosophiae, a history and description of the schools of philosophical thought then current, but the writing style is not similar to his other works, and Knowles, for one, does not believe it was authored by Kilwardby.Knowles Evolution of Medieval Thought p. 287
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Writings on grammar
Citations
(2025). 9780750926300, Sutton. ISBN 9780750926300
(1996). 052156350X, Cambridge University Press. 052156350X
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Categories: 1210s Births, 1279 Deaths, 13th-century English Cardinals, Cardinal-bishops Of Porto, English Dominicans, Dominican Cardinals, Archbishops Of Canterbury, 13th-century Writers In Latin, Scholastic Philosophers, English Logicians, Philosophers Of Science, 13th-century English Philosophers, 13th-century English Writers, Year Of Birth Uncertain
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