TY - JOUR
T1 - Robert Fland, or Elandus Dialecticus?
AU - Read, Stephen
AU - Thakkar, Mark Nicholas Andrew
N1 - ISBN 978-0-88844-680-0
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - In the late 1970s, Paul Spade edited three treatises, on Consequences, Insolubles and Obligations, which he attributed to an otherwise unknown fourteenth-century logician whom he named as Robert Fland. We question this reading of the name and argue that his real name was Robert Eland. Moreover, we suggest that he should be identified with Eland the dialectician, whose Sophismata is mentioned in an account book at Merton College in 1367, and whose renown as a logician was disdainfully recorded some two hundred years later by the bibliographer John Bale.
AB - In the late 1970s, Paul Spade edited three treatises, on Consequences, Insolubles and Obligations, which he attributed to an otherwise unknown fourteenth-century logician whom he named as Robert Fland. We question this reading of the name and argue that his real name was Robert Eland. Moreover, we suggest that he should be identified with Eland the dialectician, whose Sophismata is mentioned in an account book at Merton College in 1367, and whose renown as a logician was disdainfully recorded some two hundred years later by the bibliographer John Bale.
UR - http://www.pims.ca/publications/new-and-recent-titles/publication/mediaeval-studies-volume-78-2016
M3 - Article
SN - 0076-5872
VL - 78
SP - 167
EP - 180
JO - Mediaeval Studies
JF - Mediaeval Studies
ER -