Professor Girard J. Etzkorn
Consulting Editor, Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project
239 Sheffield Drive
Fairfield Glade, TN 38558
Email: Jerry Etzkorn
Teaching Career:
Our Lady of Angels Seminary (affil. Quincy College): 1961-1967 (Instr. - Asst. Prof. of Philosophy)
Quincy College: 1967-1971 (Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy)
Southern Illinois Univ. - Carbondale: 1971-72 (Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy)
Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.: 1973-1995 (Research Professor)
Retired 1995: St. Bonaventure University - Franciscan Institute: Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Awards and Honors
American Philosophical Society Grant n. 3926 (Penrose Fund): research on critical edition of Roger Marston: Florence, Italy, 1965-66.
American Philosophical Society Grant n. 999 (Johnson Fund): research on critical edition of John Pecham: Grottaferrata, Italy, 1971.
Directory of American Scholars (J. Cattell: New York-London 1982, vol. IV, p. 148).
Répertoire Internationale des Médiévistes (K. G. Saur: Paris, New York 1987, 348-349).
Honorary member of Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society).
Membership in Scholarly Organizations
Medieval Academy of America.
Société Internationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale.
Language Skills
Latin and medieval Latin paleography.
French (fluent speaking and reading knowledge).
German (fluent speaking and reading knowledge).
Greek (reasonably good reading knowledge in philosophy).
Publications
I. Articles.
1. “Liberty in God according to Scotus,” in The Scotist 11 (1955) 30-39.
2. “The Grades of the Form according to Roger Marson, O.F.M.,” in Franziskanische Studien, 44 (1962) 418-454.
3. “Roger Marston's Grades' Theory in the Light of his Philosophy of Nature,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia-II, (1963) 535-542.
4. “Petrus Sutton(?), O.F.M.: Quodlibeta,” in Franciscan Studies, 23 (1963) 68-139.
5. “Petrus Sutton(?), O.F.M.: Quaestiones disputatae,” in Franciscan Studies, 24 (1964) 101-143.
6. “Roger Marston,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) V, 1968-1969.
7. “John Pecham,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) VI, 69.
8. “Richard of Mediavilla,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) VII, 192.
9. “James of the Marches,” in New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) VIII, 811-812.
10. “Jeanne Marie de Maille,” in New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) VIII, 861.
11. “A Commentary on Theistic Religion as Regression,” in Insight, 4 (1966) 39-41.
12. “Michel Henry. - Does the Concept 'Soul' Mean Anything?” transl. by G. J. Etzkorn in Philosophy Today, XIII (1969) 94-114.
13. “Clm 8943 - Mediaeval Potpourri, Contemporary Consternation,” in Studies Honoring Ignatius Charles Brady, Friar Minor (Franciscan Institute Publications - Theology Series n. 6, 1976, 247-268).
14. “Révision dans l'ordre des Quodlibets de Jean Pecham,” in Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 19 (1977) 65.
15. “John of la Rochelle's View of Christ as King, Teacher and Priest,“ in Franciscan Christology, ed. D. McElrath (Franciscan Institute Publications - Sources Series n. 1, 1980, 40-58).
“William of Ockham and the Meaning of the Hypostatic Union,” in Franciscan Christology, ed. D. McElrath (Franciscan Institute Publications - Sources Series n. 1, 1980, 183-201).
17. “Walter Chatton and the Controversy on the Absolute Necessity of Grace,” in Franciscan Studies, 37 (1977) 32-65.
18. “A New Treatise Ascribed to Ockham - Notes on Vatic. lat. 4269,” in Bulletin de la Philosophie Médiévale, 21 (1979) 81-85.
19. “John Reading on the Existence and Unicity of God, Efficient and Final Causality,” in Franciscan Studies, 41 (1981) 110-221.
20. “Note sur Jean le Chanoine, alias Petrus de Consuelis, O.F.M.,” in Bulletin de la Philosophie Médiévale, 23 (1981) 93.
21. “Roger Marston, O.F.M.: An Example of Thirteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Apologetics,” in Cithara, XXI (1982) 3-16.
22. “Codex Merton 284: Evidence of Ockham's Early Influence in Oxford,“ in From Ockham to Wyclif, ed. A. Hudson and M. Wilks (Oxford 1987, pp. 31-42).
23. “The Codex Paris Nat. Lat. 15,805,” in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 80 (1987) 321-333.
24. “A Heretofore Unknown Quodlibet of Walter Chatton,” in Bulletin de la Philosophie Médiévale, 29 (1987) 230.
25. “John Pecham, O.F.M.: A Career of Controversy,” in Monks, Nuns, and Friars in Mediaeval Society, ed. E.King, J. Schaefer and W. Wadley (Univ. of the South 1989, pp. 71-82).
26. “Ockham Manuscripts Discovered since the Completion of the Critical Edition,” in Manuscripta, 32 (1988) 36-49.
27. “Ockham's View of the Human Passions in the Light of his Philosophical Anthropology,” in Die Gegenwart Ockhams, (Weinheim 1990, pp. 265-287).
28. “John Foxal, O.F.M.: His Life and Writings,” in Franciscan Studies, 49 (1989) 17-24.
29. “Ockham at a Provincial Chapter: 1323. A Prelude to Avignon,” in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 83 (1990) 557-567.
30. “Vat. Lat. 6829. Another Copy of Henry of Gorkum's Compendium Summae Theologiae,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae-IV, (Città del Vaticano 1990, pp. 37-39).
31. “The Scotus Edition: John Duns Scotus's Philosophical Works,” in Franciscan Studies 51 (1991) 117-130.
32. “Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of the Death of St. Bonaventure,” in Franciscan Studies 51 (1991) 137-139.
33. “Commemoration of the Eighth Centenary of the Birth of St. Francis,“ in Franciscan Studies 51 (1991) 141-142.
34. “International Ockham Colloquium,” in Franciscan Studies 51 (1991) 143-146.
35. “The Franciscan Institute Medal,” in Franciscan Studies 51 (1991) 147-149.
36. “Tortosa Cathedral 88: A 'Thomas Wilton� Manuscript and the Question of the Compatibility of Multiple Accidents in the same Subject,” with Robert Andrews in Mediaevilia Philosophica Polonorum, XXXII (1994) 57-99.
37. “A Symposium on God's Knowledge of Future Contingents,” in Miscellanea Francescana 96 (1996) 561-571.
38. “Franciscus de Mayronis: A Newly Discovered Treatise on Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition,” in Franciscan Studies, 54 (1994-1997) 15-50.
39. “John of La Rochelle: On How to Read the Bible,” in That Others may Know and Love: Essays in Honor of Zachary Hayes, OFM, edd. M. Cusato and E. Coughlin (St. Bonaventure Univ. - Franciscan Inst. Publ. 1997, pp. 159-165).
40. “Marston, Roger (c. 1235-c.1303),” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 6 (London-New York 1998, pp. 114-115).
41. “Pecham, John (c. 1230-1292),” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 7 (London-New York 1998, pp. 267-269).
42. “Ockham at Avignon: His Response to Critics,” in Franciscan Studies 59 (2001) 9-19.
43. “Walter Chatton” in Dictionnaire du Moyen Åge, edd. C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 2002, p. 1475-1476.
44. “John Pecham” in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Gracia et T. Noone (Oxford: Blackwell 2003), p.384-387.
45. “Walter Chatton” in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Gracia et T. Noone (Oxford: Blackwell 2003), p. 674-675.
II. Critical Reviews
1. Thomas von Sutton, Quodlibeta, ed. M. Schmaus and M. Gonzales-Haba. Reviewed in Speculum, 46 (1971) 400-401.
2. S.A. McGrade, The Political Thought of William of Ockham (Cambridge Univ. 1974). Reviewed in Cithara, 15 (1975) 97-99.
3. C. Saco Alarçon (ed.) Nicolai de Ockham, O.F.M., Quaest. Disp. De dilectione Dei (ed. Grottaferrata 1981, pp. 106* = 195). Reviewed in Speculum, 58 (1983) 789-791.
4. J. Cohen, The Friars and the Jews. The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982, pp. 301). Reviewed in Cithara 23 (1984) 44-45.
5. J. Ribaillier (ed.) Guillelmus Altissiodorensis, Summa Aurea, lib. I-II (Grottaferrata 1980-1982, pp. 403. 807). Reviewed in Speculum, 59 (1984) 154-156.
6. M. McCord Adams, William Ockham, (Notre Dame Univ. 1987, 2 vols. pp. 1420). Reviewed as “Marilyn McCord Adams 'William Ockham': At last a Fair Trial,” in Franciscan Studies, 47 (1987) 279-285.
7. R. Dales and E. King (edd.) Robert Grosseteste, De cessatione legalium, (Oxford 1986, pp. xxx + 215). Reviewed in Speculum, 63 (1988) 671-674.
8. Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality, ed. A. B. Wolter (Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. Press, 1986, pp. X + 543). Reviewed in Theological Studies 48 (1987) 180-182.
9. J. Ribaillier (ed.) Guillelmus Altissiodorensis, Summa Aurea, lib. III-IV (Grottaferrata 1985-1986, pp. 1106. 576). Reviewed in Speculum, 63 (1988) 674-676.
10. A. B. Wolter, The Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus, ed. M. McCord Adams (Cornell Univ. 1990, pp. ix + 356); idem, Duns Scotus' Political and Economic Philosophy (Old Mission-Santa Barbara 1989, pp. x + 111). Reviewed in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1991) 521-524.
11. John Pecham, Questions Concerning the Eternity of the World, transl. V. Potter (Fordham Univ. 1993, pp. xxi + 74). Reviewed in International Philosophical Quarterly, 34 (1994) 499-500.
12. S. Bonaventure, Sermones de Diversis, ed. Jacques Guy Bougerol 2 vols. (Paris: Les editions Franciscaines, 1993). Paper. 1: pp. 1-420. 2: 421-881. Review in Speculum (forthcoming).
13. Jean de la Rochelle, Summa de anima, ed. J. G. Bougerol. Textes Philosophiques du Moyen Age (Vrin: Paris 1995) 240 x 156 mm., 298p. Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 88 (1995) 579-581.
14. H. Klocker, S.J., William of Ockham and the Divine Freedom (Marquette Univ. Press, 1992. Pp. 141). Review in Franciscan Studies 52 (1992) 329-333.
15. Guillelmus de la Mare, Scriptum in secundum librum Sententiarum, ed. Hans Kraml (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 18.) Munich: C.H.Beck, 1995; pp. 24* + 579). Review in Speculum 72 (1997) 478-479.
16. The Context of Casuistry, ed. J.F. Keenan, S.J. and T.A. Shannon (Georgetown Univ. Press, Washington, D.C., 1995), in Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 339-345.
17. M. G. Ingham, The Harmony of Goodness: Mutuality and Moral Living according to John Duns Scotus, (The Franciscan Press, Quincy, IL., 1996), in Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 359-362.
18. L.M. DeRijk, Nicholas of Autrecourt: His Correspondence with Master Giles and Bernard of Arezzo: A Critical Essay and English Translation, (E.J. Brill: Leiden-New York-Cologne, 1994), in Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 370-374.
19. Iohannes de Caulibus, Meditationes vite Christi, olim S. Bonaventuro attributae, ed. M. Stallings-Taney (Corpus Christianorum,Continuatio Mediaevalis, 153; Turnhout: Brepols 1997, pp. xxiii + 391) in Speculum 74 (1999) 1074-1075.
III. Books
1. Roger Marston, Quodlibeta Quattuor, ed. G. Etzkorn and I. Brady in Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica XXVI (Quaracchi 1968, pp. 87* + 550); ed. 2 (Grottaferrata 1994, pp. 87 + 550).
2. Michel Henry, The Essence of Manifestation, transl. by G. Etzkorn (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973, pp. xvi + 740).
3. Michel Henry, The Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body, transl. by G. Etzkorn (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975, pp. x + 240).
4. Guillelmus de Ockham, Scriptum in I Sent., dist. 4-18, ed. G. Etzkorn (St. Bonaventure Univ. 1976, pp. 25* + 575).
5. Guillelmus de Ockham, Scriptum in I Sent., dist. 19-48, edd. G. Etzkorn and F. Kelley (St. Bonaventure Univ. 1979, pp. 23* + 751).
6. Guillelmus de Ockham, Quaestiones in III Sent., edd. F. Kelley and G. Etzkorn (St. Bonaventure Univ. 1982, pp. 21* + 462).
7. Guillelmus de Ockham, Quaestiones Variae, ed. G. Etzkorn, F. Kelley and J. Wey (St. Bonaventure Univ. 1984, pp. 24* + 482).
8. Ps.-Guillelmus de Ockham, Opera Dubia et Spuria, ed. E. Buytaert(�), G. Mohan(�), L. Baudry(�), Ph. Boehner(�), G. G l, J. Giermek, G. Etzkorn and F. Kelley (St. Bonaventure Univ. 1988, pp. 31* + 670).
9. Ioannes Pecham, Quodlibet Quattuor, ed. G. Etzkorn and F. Delorme(�) in Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica XXV (Grottaferrata 1989, pp. 25* + 360).
10. G. Etzkorn, Iter Vaticanum Franciscanum. A Descriptive Catalog of some 100 codices in the Vaticanus Latinus collection, (E. J. Brill: Leiden 1996). Pp. xi + 301.
11. Cardinal Bessarion, De arcanis Dei: A Fifteenth Century Symposium on Future Contingents, ed. G. Etzkorn with introductions by Girard J. Etzkorn and Stephen F. Brown (Rome: Miscellanea Franciscana 1997, 220pp.).
12. Walter Chatton, Reportatio super Sententias, Liber I, dist. 1-9 (Toronto: Pontifical Inst. Mediaeval Studies 2001, xii + 579pp.)
13. Walter Chatton, Reportatio super Sententias, Liber I dist. 10-48 (Toronto: Pontifical Inst. Mediaeval Studies 2001, xii + 501pp.)
14. Ioannes Pecham, Quaestiones Disputatae, in Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica XXVIII (Grottaferrata: Frati Editori di Quaracchi 2002, xvi + 624pp.)
V. Papers Delivered at Scholarly Conventions
1. “A Progress Report on the Critical Editing of the Works of William of Ockham,” at First St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. St. Louis Univ. Oct. 18-19, 1974.
2. “Immanence in Bonaventure and Meister Eckhart,” at VIII Annual International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. May 2-5, 1974.
3. “Ockham's Attitudes on the Relationship between Faith and Reason,” at II Annual Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, Univ. of the South, April 12, 1975.
4. “The Discovery of the Identity of the Authors in a Munich Miscellany Codex CLM 8943,” at II St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis Univ. Oct. 16-18, 1975.
5. “Safety in Numbers? How Pecham's Quodlibet de Natali Came to be Included in the Quodlibets of St. Thomas,” at II St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis Univ. Oct. 14-15, 1976.
6. “The Task of Critical Editing,” at Interdisciplinary Meeting of Medievalists, Penn. State Univ. Dec. 5, 1977.
7. “Knowledge and Language according to William of Ockham,” at VI Annual Congress for Medieval Philosophy, Univ. of Bonn, Germany, Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 1977.
8. “John Pecham as Controversialist against the Secular Clergy and the Dominicans,“ at XIV Annual International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. May 3-6, 1979.
9. “Some Examples of Late 13th Century English Franciscan Anti-Semitic Apologetics,” at VI Annual Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, Univ. of the South, April 13-14, 1979.
10. “Ockham on Universals... Again!” at XV Annual International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. May 1-4, 1980.
11. “William of Ockham's Doctrine on the Human Passions,” at Southeastern Mediaeval Association Convention, West Virginia Univ. Oct. 1-3, 1981.
12. “The Axiom 'Nature Operates at Full Power' in the Writings of Duns Scotus,” at 18th Annual International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. May 5-8, 1983.
13. “Florence, Bibl. Naz. Conv. soppr. D.4.95: John of Reading's Ordinatio, an Invaluable Witness to his Contemporaries and their Thought,” at X St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis Univ. Oct. 14-15, 1983.
14. “Working through the Maze: A Critical Edition of the Quaestiones of Scotus on the Metaphysics,” at XIX St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis Univ. Oct. 9-10, 1992.
15. “Critical Editing: Art or Science?” at XXI St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis Univ. Oct. 21-22, 1994.
16. “Walter Chatton, O.F.M. – Ockham's Nemesis,” at Southeastern Mediaeval Conference, Knoxville, TN. Oct. 15-16, 1999.
17. “Can God's Will Be Frustrated: Ockham and Chatton,” at 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. May 7-10, 2003.
VI. Critical Editions in Progress:
1. Gualterus Chatton, OFM, Reportatio in IV libros Sententiarum: vol. 4: Liber II; vol. 5: Libri III-IV.
2. Gualterus Chatton, OFM, Lectura in I Sent.: vol. 1: dist. 1-2; vol. 2: dist. 3-9; vol. 3: dist. 10-17
3. Marcus of Orvieto, OFM, Liber de Moralitatibus, Tractatus I-VII (2 vols.)
4. Henricus de Gandavo, Quodlibet XV, ed. G. Wilson et G. Etzkorn.
VII. Teaching Experience
Aesthetics: 2 semesters
Descartes: 1 quarter
Epistemology: 4 semesters
Ethics: 5 semesters
Existentialism: 5 semesters.
French (intro.interm.): 8 semesters
History of Ancient Philosophy: 1 quarter
History of Medieval Philosophy: 5 semesters, 2 quarters
History of Modern Philosophy: 3 semesters, 1 quarter
History of Contemporary Philosophy: 2 semesters
Introduction to Philosophy: 3 semesters
Logic: 24 semesters – Plato: 1 quarter
Medieval Latin: 1 semester
Medieval Latin Paleography: 20 semesters
Metaphysics: 2 quarters
Philosophy of Education: 4 semesters
VIII. Thesis Supervision
1. Directed Master's Thesis on “Anselm's Ontological Argument” (Southern Illinois Univ. - Carbondale; Winter & Spring Quarters, 1972).
2. Member of Jury for Duncan Bradley's doctoral dissertation on Spinoza's Ethics (Southern Illinois Univ.-Carbondale; Winter 1972).
3. Directed doctoral dissertation of William Gannon on “William of Ockham and the Powers of the Soul.” - Defended at Catholic University of America, December 1975.
4. Member of Jury for Mary Katherine Sommers' doctoral defense on “Walter Burley's Questions on the Posterior Analytics. Introduction and Critical Text.” - Defended at Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada, May 1979.
5. Member of Jury for Timothy Brian Noone's Doctoral defense � on “An Edition and Study of a Scriptum super Metaphysicam Book XII dist. 2. - A Work Attributable to Richard Rufus of Cornwall.” - Defended at Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada, May 1988.
IX. Teaching and Research Awards
Outstanding Teacher of Year, Quincy College 1971.
Faculty Recognition Award for Professional Excellence, St. Bonaventure University 1985.