This book is the first in-depth, diachronic philosophical study of some of the most important thirteenth-century theories of faith, including those of Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Peter John Olivi, Henry of Ghent, Godfrey of Fontaines and John Duns Scotus.

During recent decades, there has been a profound change in the way that researchers have read and interpreted the sources of the Middle Ages. This shift has prompted scholars to reconsider the historical value of the medieval cartularies. From Charters to Codex. Studies on Cartularies and Archival Memory in the Middle Ages

The book is concerned with arguably the single harshest subsistence crisis in Europe in the last two millennia: the Great Famine of 1315-17.