Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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lessons,and it was there that he completed his theological studies by a coniiuciitaryon Pierre Lombards Sentences. After being received Doctor, he began hislessons, in which he developed with marvellous lucidity the various parts ofhis Sum of Theology, which became the basis of his great reputation. Hecontinued his teaching to large audiences for many years, and he wrotewithout intermission a vast number of theological treatises, forming altogether 1 PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES. eighteen folio volumes. The UniTersity of Paris had adopted him as one ofher sons, and was proud of being able to oto him as such. But Charles ofAnjou, King of Naples, was anxious to place him at the head of that Univer-sity, and induced Pope Clement IV. (Fig. 44) to recall him to Italy. ThomasAquinas reluctantly obeyed, for he was in declining health, and afflicted withpremature infirmities. The frequent journeys which he had been obliged totake in the interests of the Church added to his fatigues, and while on his
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^. Fig. 44.—Portrait of Clement IV.—Fresco Painting, on gold ground, in Mosaic, in theBasilica of St. Paul--without-tlie-WalIs at Rome (Thirteenth Century). way to the Council of Lyons, in 1274, he was compelled to break the journeynear Terracina, at a Cistercian monastery, -s^here he died, after a few daysillness, at the age of forty-eight. Thomas Aquinas, whom the Church afterwards placed amongst her saints,left the highest reputation behind him in the Paris schools. He was calledthe Second Sf. Aiigiidine, the Angel of tlie Bclwok, the Angelic Doctor, theDoctor of Doctors. In fact, his was the only theology taught in most of theCatholic schocils subsequently to the thirteenth century.

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