Simple Index of 2021 Course Pages
Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005), 327-329:
1215 (Toulouse) Foundation of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans).
1217 (Sept.-Oct.) Foundation of the Dominican priory in Paris.
1218 (August) The friars settle in Saint-Jacques.
1220 (22 Nov.) Crowning of Emperor Frederick II.
1221 (6 August) Death of Saint Dominic.
1222-1237 Jordan of Saxony, master of the Dominican Order.
1224 Foundation of the university at Naples.
1224/1225 Thomas’s birth at Roccasecca (region of Naples).
1229 Roland of Cremona, first Dominican regent-master at Paris (first chair).
1239 John of Saint-Gilles, second Dominican regent-master at Paris (second chair).
ca. 1230-1239 Thomas an oblate at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino.
1238-1240 Raymond of Penafort, master of the order.
1239-1240 Studies at Naples.
1241-1252 John of Wildeshausen (John the Teuton), master of the order.
1243/1244 Albertus Magnus arrives in Paris.
1244 (April) Thomas takes the Dominican habit.
1244-1245 Forced detention at Roccasecca by Thomas’s family.
1245 (17 July) Frederick II deposed.
1245 (Fall) Thomas is able to return to the Dominicans.
1245-1248 Studies in Paris with Saint Albertus Magnus.
1248-1252 Studying and assisting Saint Albert in Cologne: Super lsaiam.
1252-1256 First period of teaching in Paris as bachelor of the Sentences:
Scriptum super Sententiis; De ente et essentia; De principiis naturae.
1254-1263 Humbert of Romans, master of the Order of Preachers.
1256 (Spring) Thomas becomes a master in theology.
1256-1259 Regent-master in Paris: Q. D.De ueritate; Quodlibet VII-XI; Super
Boetium de Trin.; C. impugnantes.
1257 (15 August) Thomas and Bonaventure are admitted to the consortium
magistrorum.
1259 (June) General Chapter in Valenciennes.
1259 (Autumn?) Return to Italy.
1259-1261 Naples (?): Summa Contra Gentiles (begun)
1261-1265 Conventual Lector in Orvieto: Summa Contra Gentiles (finished);
Super Iob; Catena aurea (Matthew); C. errores Graecorum; etc.
1264-1283 John of Vercelli, master of the Order of Preachers.
1265-1268 Regent-master at Rome: Prima Pars; Catena aurea (Mark,
Luke, John ); De potentia; Sententia libri De anima; Compendium
theologiae; etc.
1268-1272 Second regency in Paris: Secunda Pars; In Matthaeum; In loannem; De
malo; De unitate intellectus; De aetemitate mundi; Comment. on
Aristotle; Quodlibet I-VI and XII; etc.
1268 (7 October) Stephen Tempier becomes bishop of Paris.
1269 (June) General chapter in Paris. (De secreta).
1270 (10 December) Bishop’s condemnation of radical Aristotelianism.
1272-1273 (Dec.) Regent-master in Naples: Tertia Pars, qq. 1-90; In Ad Romanos(?);
Super Psalmos 1-54(?) .
1274 (7 March) Death in Fossanova (south of Rome, on the way to the council of
Lyon).
1274 (2 May) Letter from the arts faculty to the general chapter of Lyon reclaiming
some of Thomas’s writing.
1277 (7 March) Condemnation by Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, of 219
heterodox propositions; a process is opened against Thomas’s
doctrine.
1277 (18 March) Condemnation in Oxford, by Robert Kilwardby, Dominican
archbishop of Canterbury, of propositions inspired by
Thomas’s work.
1284 (29 October) John Pecham, Franciscan archbishop of Canterbury, confirms his
predecessor’s condemnations.
Also see Fernand Van Steenberghen, La Philosophie au XIII Siècle (Louvain: Publications Universitaires; & Paris: Béatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1966), 584-590
and James Weisheipl, Friar Thomas d’Aquino (1974; 1983)
Pasquale Porro, Thomas Aquinas. A Historical and Philosophical Profile (2016): Chronology