HENRY OF HARCLAY. - English Scholastic. The data, both biographical and pertaining to his scholarly activity, are scanty and unreliable. According to Pelster he was born around 1270 and received priestly ordination in 1297. A magister regens at the University of Oxford, he became its chancellor in 1312. He died in 1317 at the papal court of Avignon, where he had gone to champion the cause of his University.

While Pelster sees in H. almost a precursor of Ockham, De Wulf judges him not to be a dissenter from Thomistic realism. In the present state of studies, an absolute judgment on H. would be premature; one can nevertheless observe in his work a certain eclecticism, so that on several questions he leans toward Scotus while on others he shows himself a faithful follower of St. Thomas. He wrote a Commentarium in Sententias and Quaestiones.

Bibliography

BIBL.: F. Pelster, H. von H., Kanzler von Oxford, und seine Quatrien, in Miscellanea Ehrle, I, Rome 1924, pp. 307-56.

Felicissimo Tinivella

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Henry of Harclay

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