The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic Quaestio Disputata: With Special Emphasis on its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
I	The use of the quaestio disputata in legal circles	3
II	The development of the quaestio disputata in the teaching of theology	6
1	The disputatio ordinaria	13
2	The disputatio de quolibet	15
III	The use of the quiaestio disputata in the teaching of physica	18
1	Disputations in physica c. 1150-1300	21
IV	The disputatio de sophismatibus	39
V	The Merton tradition	45
VI	The diffusion of Mertonian ideas 1300-1450	53
1	In Paris	53
2	In Italy	54
3	In Germany and Eastern Europe	63
VII	Medical quaestiones disputatae c. 1250-1450	66
VIII	Quaestiones disputatae in physica during the late 15th and 16th centuries	85
1	In Italy	85
2	In Paris and the Iberian Peninsula	97
IX	The reaction against dialectic	101
1	The reaction against its use in any form by theologians	101
2	The reaction against sophismata	103
a	By ancient authors	103
b	By 12th and 13th-century theologians	104
c	By the humanists	107
3	The reaction against quodlibeta	126
X	The decline of the quaestio disputata in the 17th century	129
	Conclusions	145
	Appendix. Examples of the use of the quaestio disputata	150
1	Simon de Tournai	150
2	Roger Bacon	150
3	Petrus Hispanus	151
4	Siger of Brabant	151
5	Pietro d'Abano	152
6	Gaetano da Thiene	153
7	Pietro Pomponazzi	153
8	The Coimbra commentaries	153
	Abbreviations	155
	Bibliography	157
	Index nominum	170