Medieval Commentaries on the 'Sentences' of Peter Lombard

In his opening considerations, "Introduction: Three Avenues for Studying the Tradition of the Sentences", Rosemann states that there are three major themes that hold the volume together: (1) the problem of authorship, (2) that which he and one of the collaborators call theological education "on the ground" - that is to say, the way in which theology was taught with the help of Lombard's work or its abbreviations in the studia of different religious orders - and, finally, (3) the discussion concerning the dynamic role of the Sentences in later medieval theology. The first contribution is that of noting the fluidity of these texts. Since in each manuscript the readers had added their own notes, it is more precise to speak of the tradition of the Filiae Magistri rather than of that of the Filia Magistri.