Hervaeus Natalis

Hervaeus Natalis^[1] (c.1260, Nédellec, diocese of Tréguier, Brittany^[2]-1323) was a Dominican theologian, the 14th Master of the Dominicans, and the author of a number of works on philosophy and theology. Among his many writings may be included the Summa Totius Logicae, an opusculum once attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

Life

Natalis joined the Dominicans in 1276. He studied theology in Paris^[3] and became French provincial of the Dominicans in 1308.

A resolute early Thomist^[4], nicknamed Doctor rarus, he was a tenacious opponent of the theology of Durandus of Saint-Pourçain.^[5] He also opposed Scotism.^[6] He sought for and obtained the canonization of Aquinas.^[7]

He became Master of the Order of Preachers in 1318, a post he held until he died in 1323.

References

• Grabmann, M. Beitrage Zur Geschichte der Phil. des Mittelalters, XXII, 1, 2, 1920, pp. 168-71.
• Pierre Mandonnet, Revue Thomiste X, 1927, pp. 146-157.
• Tavuzzi M. Hervaeus Natalis and the philosophical logic of the Thomism of the Renaissance, Doctor Communis 45: 132-152 (1992)
• Doyle J. P. Hervaeus Natalis, O.P., (d. 1323) on intentionality: its direction, context, and some aftermath, Modern Schoolman 83: 85-124 (2006).

Notices

1. ^ Hervé or Harvey or Hervey Nedellec, or de Nédellec; Hervaeus Natalis Brito. There was another Hervaeus Brito of the early thirteenth century.
2. ^ Risultato della ricerca Web OPAC ICCU
3. ^ http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/1298h-j.htm
4. ^ [1]: The first Thomists appear at the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth. They defend St. Thomas against certain Augustinians of the ancient school, against the Nominalists and the Scotists. We must note in particular the works of Herve de Nedellec against Henry of Ghent; of Thomas Sutton against Scotus, of Durandus of Aurillac against Durandus of Saint-Pourcain and against the first Nominalists.
5. ^ [2], [3]. His predecessor as Master had appointed him, Peter de la Palu, John of Naples and others as a theological commission to assess the ideas of Durandus.
6. ^ [4]: a valiant opponent of Scotus.
7. ^ Ashley/Dominicans: 3 Mystics 1300s

Works

• Theologie und Wissenschaft nach der Lehre der Hochscholastik: an der Hand der bisher ungedruckten Defensa doctrinae D.Thomae des Hervaeus Natalis / mit Beifügung gedruckter und ungedruckter Paralleltexte von Engelbert Krebs. Münster: Aschendorff, 1912.
• Durandi de S. Porciano OP Quaestio de natura cognitionis: (2. Sent. [A] D. 3 Q. 5) et Disputatio cum anonymo quodam nec non Determinatio Hervei Natalis OP (Quol. 3 Q. 8) ad fidem manuscriptorum edidit Josephus Koch. Monasterii: Aschendorff, 1929.
• De Iurisdictione ein unveröffentlichter Traktat des Herveus Natalis OP über die kirchengewalt von Ludwig Hödl. München: Max Hueber, 1959.
• Magistri D. Durandi a Sancto Porciano Ordinis praedicatorum Quolibeta avenionensia tria Durandus a Sancto Porciano; additis Correctionibus Hervei Natalis supra dicta Durandi in primo quodlibet; cura P. T. Stella. Zürich: Pas, 1965.
• Hervei Natalis Britonis In quatuor Libros sententiarum Commentaria quibus adiectus est eiusdem auctoris Tractatus de potestate Papae. Farnborough Hants: Gregg Press, 1966 (Facsimile reprint of the edition: Parisiis, apud viduam Dyonisii Moreau & Dyonisium Moreau filium, 1647.
• Quodlibeta Hervei subtilissima Hervei Natalis Britonis theologi acutissimi quodlibeta undecim cum octo ipsius profundissimis tractatibus ... nunc primum impressa ... Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg, 1966 (Facsimile reprint of the edition: Venetiis, per Georgium Arrivabenum, 1513.
• Harvey of Nedellec's proofs for the existence of God: de cognitione primi principii, QQ.III-IV Edited by Joseph T. Mannath, Rome, Pontificium Athenaeus Salesianum, (Excerpt from a Ph. D. thesis) 1969.
• The poverty of Christ and the apostles Hervaeus Natalis; a translation, with introduction and notes, of the Liber de paupertate Christi et apostolorum by John D. Jones Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1999.
• A Treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis (d.1323) The Doctor Perspicacissimus On Second Intentions Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 2008. Volume One - An English translation and Volume Two - A Latin edition by John P. Doyle.
• The poverty of Christ and the apostles Hervaeus Natalis; a translation, with introduction and notes, of the Liber de paupertate Christi et apostolorum by John D. Jones Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1999.
• A Treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis (d.1323) The Doctor Perspicacissimus On Second Intentions Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 2008. Volume One - An English translation and Volume Two - A Latin edition by John P. Doyle.

External links

• Leonore Bazinek (1993). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Natalis, Hervaeus (Namensvarianten: de Nedellec, Nédélec, Nédélek, Noël; Vorname: Arveus, Erveus, Hervé), Zuname 'de Brito'. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 6. Herzberg. cols. 468–474. ISBN 3-88309-044-1. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/n/natalis_h.shtml. 
• On equipollence From the Summa totius logicae