This large, ambitious book is a rather exhaustive treatment of a central issue in the thought
of one of the most important and influential medieval thinkers: John Duns Scotus, OFM (d.
1308). The key word here is" rupture," and Loiret sets out to show, through a careful and
wide reading of Scotus's works, how the Doctor Subtilis broke away from traditional
Aristotelian-medieval views on the will and the infinite, especially those of the Dominican
Thomas Aquinas, but also of the secular theologian Henry of Ghent, who often had a …