For the opening of term, Jana Ilnicka who is part of the AHRC research project team of King's College and the MWK on 'Meister Eckhart and the early 14th century Parisian University', has presented her working paper on 'Prosper de Regio Emilia and Eckhart's Parisian Question on Relation'. Here the abstract of the paper:
Prosper of Regio Emilia is the author of the manuscript that has been preserved in Vat. Lat. 1086 with which has prepared himself for his magister test at Paris University in 1315. In this test he concentrated on the topic of 'relation', but in order to prepare himself, he created a huge portfolio of over 500 Questions, given by masters and students in the years around 1311. Out of all those questions, however, only two by Meister Eckhart (and one other by an unknown magister) deal with Prosper's own main topic of 'relation' . In his conclusions, which are based on the arguments of Meister Eckhart, Prosper shows not only amazing parallels to Eckhart's Questions, but they also show that the position of Eckhart on this subject was known and adopted as a benchmark at Paris University at this time. There still remain some problems of interpretation that might be addressed in future discussions, but the importance that Eckhart has for Prosper is illuminating.
Prosper of Regio Emilia is the author of the manuscript that has been preserved in Vat. Lat. 1086 with which has prepared himself for his magister test at Paris University in 1315. In this test he concentrated on the topic of 'relation', but in order to prepare himself, he created a huge portfolio of over 500 Questions, given by masters and students in the years around 1311. Out of all those questions, however, only two by Meister Eckhart (and one other by an unknown magister) deal with Prosper's own main topic of 'relation' . In his conclusions, which are based on the arguments of Meister Eckhart, Prosper shows not only amazing parallels to Eckhart's Questions, but they also show that the position of Eckhart on this subject was known and adopted as a benchmark at Paris University at this time. There still remain some problems of interpretation that might be addressed in future discussions, but the importance that Eckhart has for Prosper is illuminating.
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