ABSTRACT
A group of historians of doctrine in the University of Paris sought to show the continuing debt of European thinkers to the scholastic theologians. The director of these studies was Professor Picavet. He had done his doctorate on the history of philosophic and scientific ideas in France since 1789; this was published, and subsequently reprinted in an extended form to include religious ideas. He wrote several studies of scholasticism and its origins in France and Germany, and a History of Medieval Philosophy, as well as translating Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. His survey of the influence of scholasticism on English thinkers gave prominence to Donne (‘The Medieval Doctrines in the Works of Donne and Locke’, Mind, n.s. 104 (1917), 385-92).
