Durandus of St Pourcain

Isabel Iribarren traces the medieval controversy between the Dominican order and its most notorious member, Durandus of St Pourain (c.1275-1336), as he openly challenged the order's promotion of Thomas Aquinas. Through a closer look at the polemical exchange, she reveals how the Dominican intellectual tradition was in fact constructed on the achievements of the rival mendicant order, the Franciscans.