@article{Contingency:2289,
      recid = {2289},
      author = {Vanderpoel, Matthew},
      title = {Contingency, Theology, and Poetry at the Collège de  Navarre in the Age of Gerson},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2020-06},
      pages = {279},
      abstract = {This dissertation treats three authors at the prominent  Collège de Navarre at the cusp of the fourteenth and  fifteenth centuries: Jean Gerson, Pierre d’Ailly, and  Nicolas de Clamanges. It describes their attempts to  constellate terminist philosophy of language, emergent  vernacular literary theories, and Christian devotional  discourse around a reforming vision of academic theology.  It explicates the Navarrists’ bold claim that poetry should  be the privileged avenue for theological production, given  that it faithfully embodies the contingencies and affective  contours of human life. By considering the literary and  academic-philosophical qualities of the Navarrists’ poetic  theology, the dissertation highlights the underacknowledged  influences of vernacular literature and nascent humanism on  the academic theology of the era, challenging preconceived  notions about the systematicity, precision, and insularity  of late-medieval scholastic thought.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2289},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2289},
}