Concept
Summa
Overview
Summa and its diminutive summula (plural summae and summulae, respectively) was a medieval didactics literary genre written in Latin, born during the 12th century, and popularized in 13th-century Europe. In its simplest sense, they might be considered texts that 'sum up' knowledge in a field, such as the compendiums of theology, philosophy and canon law. Their function during the Middle Ages was largely as manuals or handbooks of necessary knowledge used by individuals who would not advance their studies any further.
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Philosophers who discussed Summa
Related ideas
- Treatise
- Thomas Cajetan
- Philosophy
- Albertus Magnus
- Latin
- Middle Ages
- Literature
- Boethius
- Thomas Aquinas
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Origen
- Alexander of Hales
- Summa Theologica
- Theology
- Aristotle
- Bible
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Peter Abelard
- Scholasticism
- Gloss (annotation)
- Genre
- Dialectic
- Peter Lombard
- Canon law
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