DOCKING, TOMMASO. – Franciscan theologian, d. after 1269. His surname was Good; he took his name from his native village in Norfolk. Between 1260 and 1265 he taught theology at the University of Oxford, the seventh master of his Order.
He was above all an exegete; commentaries on Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Letters of s. Paul (except Romans), and Quaestiones on s. Luke and Job are preserved in several manuscripts in English libraries. He frequently makes moral applications and shows a good knowledge of the natural sciences.
BIBL.: J. Leland, Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis, Oxford 1709, p. 314, ff.; A. G. Little, The Franciscan School at Oxford in the thirteenth Century, in Archiv. Francisc. historicus, 19 (1926), pp. 846–50; id., Thomas D. and his relation to Roger Baron, in Essays in history, presented to R. Lane Poole, Oxford 1927, pp. 301–31. Arduino Kleinhans