Los géneros de producción escolástica: algunas cuestiones histórico-críticas / Genera of Scholastic Production: Critical Historical Questions

Abstract

Interesting issues and thinking have risen when the category in historiography «Scholastics» was shaped. It is important to resolve two of them: 1. the category should be applied to all disciplines in the medieval university curriculum, especially to philosophy; 2. the significant contents of the category should allow a truly useful application.Conceptualizing Scholastics as De Rijk proposes, allows to visualize the coming up of this model in about the middle of the twelfth century. It appeared at the same time as the consolidation of the scholastic institutions and within them the structure of the triple exercise of lectio, queastio and disputatio. It also permits to understand the terms ad quem for each discipline, including philosophy insofar as the changes in the circle of knowledge put into crisis the task of the magistri.It deals with studying in a more particular way several aspects of the medieval theoretical production which could be correctly characterized in this category.