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Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Oxford house should become a Studium Generate for the
whole Order. Up till 1261 nothing was done, so the chapter
of that year deposed the provincial for his negligence or dis-
obedience and insisted upon the immediate establishment of
this solemn study centre. The new provincial was himself a
lecturer of European repute, Robert Kilwardby, and hi
senergy was certainly devoted to the chapters designs. New
building items appear in the royal account books, new gener-
osity and princely munificence. The foreign friars were housed
and lodged and apparently heartily disliked. But before racial
disturbances had time to occur, a crisis almost overwhelmed
the Dominican schools in Paris and Oxford.
The history of Christendom had made the intellectual
apologists of the earliest ages almost wholly of Eastern train-
ing, and had by a series of accidental occurrences resulted in
the statements of theology being couched in the formularie
sof Plato. These were a little later re-
stated with much vigour

1 Annales, p. 211.

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DOMINICAN CHURCH, NORWICH
NOW S. ANDREW'S HALL.
[To face p. 66

of thought and beauty of language by the greatest of all the
fathers, S. Augustine of Hippo. The schools of the West
continued that tradition for another five hundred years in a
condition of stiff apathy. Then came a renaissance of study,
dawning with the Carolingian glories and culminating in the
band of thinkers who can be conveniently grouped round the
names of Abelard and St. Bernard. For another century this
revival lasted till the rise of the friars, who, coming to win
back the universities to the Church, again stimulated the in-
telligence of Europe. Hence once more the philosophy of the
Faith began to be systematized and re-stated in terms of yet
more developed Platonism.
Yet all the while, though impotent and commonly neglected,
the philosophy of Aristotle still remained lingering among
lonely writers. With his deep literary and historic insight
and his attempt at grasping the development of doctrine,

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