John Sabapathy
I work on the comparative history of Europe/Christendom mostly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. My study 'Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170–1300' won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize 2015 for the best first book on a topic of British or Irish history. My next project is a wide-randing study of thirteenth century Europe, 'The Cultivation of Christendom', a volume for OUP within their 'Oxford History of Medieval Europe' series.
I co-convene the UCL/Warburg scholasticism group and the IHR 'European History 1150-1550' seminar.
At UCL I have taught on ‘Concepts, categories and the practice of history’ and 'Rationality' for undergraduates and will be teaching on 'The First European Union? Christendom 1100-1350' and 'Templars, Heretics, Popes and Princes: The Crises of the Papacy, 1294-1334' from 2014. I have taught Medieval Latin and 'Europe's Long Thirteenth Century' for our Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) MA.
I studied at Wadham College, Oxford; King's College, London; and UCL, where I gained my PhD. Before returning to UCL I was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Between my BA and graduate degrees I worked in public policy on sustainable development and corporate accountability for several research institutes.
I co-convene the UCL/Warburg scholasticism group and the IHR 'European History 1150-1550' seminar.
At UCL I have taught on ‘Concepts, categories and the practice of history’ and 'Rationality' for undergraduates and will be teaching on 'The First European Union? Christendom 1100-1350' and 'Templars, Heretics, Popes and Princes: The Crises of the Papacy, 1294-1334' from 2014. I have taught Medieval Latin and 'Europe's Long Thirteenth Century' for our Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) MA.
I studied at Wadham College, Oxford; King's College, London; and UCL, where I gained my PhD. Before returning to UCL I was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Between my BA and graduate degrees I worked in public policy on sustainable development and corporate accountability for several research institutes.
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This volume explores the relationship between individuals and institutions in scholastic thought and practice across the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, setting an agenda for future debates. Written by leading European experts from numerous fields, this theoretically sophisticated collection analyses a wide range of intellectual practices and disciplines. Avoiding narrow approaches to scholasticism, the book addresses ethics, history, heresy, law, inquisition, metaphysics, pastoral care, poetry, religious orders, saints’ cults and theology. A substantial introduction establishes an accessible historiographical context for the volume’s agenda, and a final afterword examines implications for future research.
The history of individuals and institutions in scholasticism has often been unhelpfully treated either as a simple intellectual genealogy of schools and doctrines, or a constitutional history of particular organizational forms. This volume advances our understanding by reconsidering these fields as a whole and addressing two large questions. What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks? How did individuals alter their institutions, and how did those institutions shape their individuality?
The devices for institutionalising accountability analyzed here reflected an extraordinarily creative response in England - and beyond - to the problem of complex government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels, sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this period.
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This volume explores the relationship between individuals and institutions in scholastic thought and practice across the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, setting an agenda for future debates. Written by leading European experts from numerous fields, this theoretically sophisticated collection analyses a wide range of intellectual practices and disciplines. Avoiding narrow approaches to scholasticism, the book addresses ethics, history, heresy, law, inquisition, metaphysics, pastoral care, poetry, religious orders, saints’ cults and theology. A substantial introduction establishes an accessible historiographical context for the volume’s agenda, and a final afterword examines implications for future research.
The history of individuals and institutions in scholasticism has often been unhelpfully treated either as a simple intellectual genealogy of schools and doctrines, or a constitutional history of particular organizational forms. This volume advances our understanding by reconsidering these fields as a whole and addressing two large questions. What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks? How did individuals alter their institutions, and how did those institutions shape their individuality?
The devices for institutionalising accountability analyzed here reflected an extraordinarily creative response in England - and beyond - to the problem of complex government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels, sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this period.
The series is part of the All4Climate – Italy 2021 Pre-COP26 Programme, a programme of events promoting 2021 as a landmark year for climate ambition, launched by the Italian Ministry for the Ecological Transition.
The roundtables bring together scholars from UCL Anthropocene, SELCS, Slade School of Fine Art, Institute of Global Health and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, as well as from UCL's partners including New York University, Princeton University, Oxford University, Kings College London and University of Nottingham, among others.