This course introduces students to the genres, sources and methods of medieval scholastic theology, with a focus on the 13th and 14th centuries. Sessions will concentrate on the guided readings of key texts by Bonaventure, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas. We will study summae, biblical commentaries, disputed questions and sermons. 

G. Dahan, L’exégèse chrétienne de la Bible en Occident medieval, Paris, Cerf, 2008 ; U. Leinsle, Introduction to Scholastic Theology, Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 2010 ; J.-P. Torrell, La Somme de saint Thomas, Paris, Cerf, 1998.