GILES OF LESSINES. - Dominican master and one of the first supporters of St. Thomas, b. at Lessines (Belgium) around 1230; d. around 1304. In the condemnation of Averroism of 1270, he glimpsed the looming threat to Thomist doctrine and wrote about it to Albert the Great, who replied with the De XV problematibus (ed. Mandonnet, in Siger de Brabant, II, 2nd ed., Louvain 1911).

He wrote: De sauris, ed. among the opuscules of St. Thomas, Tractatus de praeceptis, De crepusculis, De concordia temporum. His Thomism is linked to the De unitate formae written in 1278 against R. Kilwardby, who had renewed from his see of Canterbury the Paris condemnations of 1277 (ed. M. De Wulf [Les philosophes belges, 1], Louvain 1901).

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: M. Grabmann, Mittelalt. Griseleben, II, Munich 1936, pp. 512-30; M. De Wulf, Storia della filosofia medievale, Italian trans. by V. Miano, II, Florence 1945, pp. 187-88, 199 (with bibl.); F. Van Steenbergen, Le « De quindicum problematibus » d'Albert le Grand, in Mélanges Auguste Pelzer, Louvain 1947, pp. 415-30.

Cornelio Fabro

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Giles of Lessines

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