Quotes from Fergus Kerr

Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.

On Thomas's view, we pray in order to dispose ourselves so as to receive properly what God wills to give us.