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Report No. r559

Guilelmus de Pagula

fl. early 14th c.

 

Alternative Names

William of Pagula; William of Poul; Guilelmus Pagaranus; Guilelmus Paghanus; Guilelmus de Pagvia; William Pagula; William Powell

 

Biography/Description

Vicar of Winkfield, Berkshire (1314–1332), Guilelmus studied and taught at Oxford from 1314, leaving a number of pastoral treatises. He summed up his work in an elaborate Summa summarum (1319–22), which was intended to offer a solution to any question of pastoral or legal concern. Largely influenced by the Repertorium of Guilelmus Durantis and the penitential Summa of Johannes of Friburgensis, its scope of legal and theological references was nevertheless much wider. The work circulated in England throughout the later Middle Ages.

 

Entry by: KP rev BP 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Summa Summarum.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Summa Summarum.

 
Manuscript

Cambridge, Pembroke Coll. 201

 
 

Cambridge, Corpus Christi Coll. 2

 
 

Durham, Cath. Libr. C.ii.13

 
 

Edinburgh, Natrional Libr. Scotland 136

 
 

Exeter, Devon Record Office Exeter, Cath. 19

 
 

Lucca, Bibl. Cap. Felin. 303

 
 

London, BL Royal 10.D.x

 
 

Oxford, Bodleian Libr. 293

 
 

Oxford, Bodleian Libr. Laud. Misc. 624

 
 

Oxford, Magdelen Coll. lat. 134

 
 

Worcester, Cath. Libr. F.131

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 1

Summa Summarum.

 
Modern Editions

Edited by L. Boyle in ‘The “Summa summarum” and Some Other Works of English Canon Law’, Proceedings Boston (Città del Vaticano 1965) 438–51 (edits prologue and list of rubrics).

 

Literature

J. Goering, ‘Leonard E. Boyle and the invention of Pastoralia’, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200–1500), R. Stansbury, ed. (Brill’s Companion to the Christian Tradition, 22; Leiden 2010) 7–20.

A. Barratt, ‘Spiritual writings and religious instruction’, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, II 1100–1400, N. Morgan and R. Thompson, ed. (Cambridge 2008) 340–366.

C. Nederman, ‘The opposite of love: royal virtue, economic prosperity and popular discontent in fourteenth-century political thought’, Princely Virtue in the Middle Ages 1200–1500, I. Bejczy and C. Nederman, ed. (Disputatio, 9; Turnhout 2007) 139–197.

C. Nederman, ‘The monarch and the marketplace: economic policy and royal finance in William of Pagula’s Speculum regis Edwardi III’, History of Political Economy, 33 (2001) 51–69.

D. Wood, ‘Rule from Europe? Four English views of papal authority in the fourteenth century’, England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale. Proceedings of the 1996 Harlaxton Symposium, J. Mitchell and M. Moran, ed. (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 8; Stamford 2000) 97–112.

C. Nederman and C. Neville, ‘The origins of the Speculum regis Edwardi III of William of Pagula’, Studi medievali (1998) 317–329.

L. Boyle, ‘The “Summa summarum” and Some Other Works of English Canon Law’, Proceedings Boston (MIC C–1; Città del Vaticano 1965) 415–56.

L. Boyle, ‘The Oculus sacerdotis and some other works of William of Pagula’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5 (1955) 81–110.