Ralph Strode, Obligationes / edited and translated by Stephen Read, E. Jennifer Ashworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Read, Stephen, 1947- editor, translator.

Ashworth, E. J., editor, translator.

Series:

Auctores Britannici medii aevi ; 47

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Strode, Ralph, active 1350-1400. Obligationes.

Strode, Ralph.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Genre:

Translations

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Academy, 2026.

Language Note:

English text, partially translated from the Latin.

Summary:

"Ralph Strode studied and taught at Merton College Oxford in the 1350s and ’60s. Later, he lived in London near Geoffrey Chaucer, who dedicated his poem Troilus and Criseyde to “philosophical Strode”. While in Oxford, Strode wrote six treatises on logic, including one on obligationes, a unique logical genre probably designed to train students in logical inference. Obligationes are logical disputations between an Opponent, who poses a proposition, usually false, against a background scenario, and a Respondent who, having accepted the Opponent’s proposal, must respond by granting, denying or doubting the propositions put forward by the Opponent in accordance with certain rules. Various rival sets of rules were proposed. Strode’s treatise argues against three such theories including Swyneshed’s and Dumbleton’s, and develops Walter Burley’s theory further. Jennifer Ashworth began her edition of Strode’s Obligationes in the 1980s, and began an English translation late in life, but was unable to finish the work before her death in 2024. Stephen Read has completed the translation, and added a history of theories of obligationes and the place of Strode’s theory in it. Apart from a doctoral dissertation presenting Strode’s Consequences, it will be the first of Strode’s treatises to appear in print."-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

Strode’s life and works

Strode and the Oxford logic

Strode’s logica

The tractatus primus

The tractatus secundus

Strode’s obligationes

History of obligationes

The responsio antiqua and responsio nova

Ralph strode’s treatise on obligationes

Sources for strode’s obligationes

Manuscripts of the obligationes

The obligationes in de principiis logicalibus

Printed sources of the obligationes and consequentie

Signs and abbreviations

Obligationes (Latin text and facing english translation).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 12, 2026).

Contains:

Strode, Ralph, active 1350-1400. Obligationes. English.

Other Format:

Print version : Ralph Strode, Obligationes.

ISBN:

9781805965831

1805965832

OCLC:

1572419569

Publisher Number:

CIPO000337242

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license