'This book manages to expand in several fascinating directions while fusing the intellectual and institutional histories of the early University of Paris in an original and convincing way …' Antonia Fitzpatrick, Speculum
Introduction: lecturers, debaters, preachers; 1. Constructing a Faculty of Theology; 2. The Parens scientiarum generation: an inside look; 3. The great debater: the influence of William of Auxerre; 4. Laundering money and souls: theologians and almsgiving at the early University; 5. From the desert to the University: Parisian theologians and the seven deadly sins; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.