An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

Ockham, William of (Occam, Hockham)
lived c. 1285-1347

William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, and is considered to be one of the most influential medieval thinkers. He called for a simplification of the scholastic movement, and was one of the founding thinkers of the nominalist school of thought. He wrote extensively about theology (some of his theological views were questioned by the Church), philosophy, and politics.

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OMSB Records by Ockham, William of:

• Brett, Annabel, ed and trans, On the Power of Emperors and Popes (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1998).
• McGrade, Arthur Stephen; John Kilcullen; Kempshall, Matthew, eds, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, Vol II: Ethics and Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• Boehner, Philotheus, ed. and trans., Philosophical Writings (New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1957).
• Böhner, Philotheus, ed., "The Realistic Conceptualism of William Ockham" (Traditio 4, 307-335, 1946).
• Davies, Julian, ed., trans., Ockham on Aristotle's Physics: A Translation of Ockham's Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum (St. Bonaventure, NY: The Franciscan Institute [Franciscan Institute Publications Text Series no. 17], 1989).
• Fairweather, Eugene R., ed., trans., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press (The Library of Christian Classics volume X), 1956).
• Freddoso, Alfred J., ed., trans.; Kelley, Francis E., ed., trans., Quodlibetal Questions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).
• O'Donovan, Oliver, ed.; O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood, ed., From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625 (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).
• Klima, Gyula, ed., Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007).