Jacob of Viterbo

James of Viterbo (painting in Santa Trinità, Viterbo, 17th century)

Jakob von Viterbo OESA (* around 1255, † around 1308 in Naples ) was a late medieval theologian and writer.

Jacob joined the Augustinian order at a young age . He studied theology at the University of Paris , one of his teachers being Aegidius Romanus . From 1293 to 1300 Jakob taught theology as a master in Paris, and from 1300 he headed the studium generale in Naples . At the end of 1302 he became Archbishop of Benevento and shortly afterwards Archbishop of Naples.

Jacob wrote several writings, such as his Quaestiones de divinis in praedicamentis , some other works have not survived. Philosophically, the sometimes quite speculative Jacob (hence the nickname Doctor speculativus ) was influenced by Aegidius and Thomas Aquinas , among others . Jacob's De regimine christiano was written in connection with the conflict between Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII . Jacob took the side of the Pope, albeit in a less sharp way than Aegidius, for example.

Translations

• RW Dyson (Ed.): James of Viterbo: On Christian Government . Woodbridge 1995.

literature

• RW Dyson: James of Viterbo. In: Henrik Lagerlund (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Heidelberg u. a. 2011, p. 583f.
• Bibliographie historique de l'Ordre de Saint Augustin No. 7315-19

Web links

• Antoine Côté:  James of Viterbo. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .