Author: William of Middleton, O.F.M.Paris, 1245-1253

Dating: William was a lector at Paris with John of La Rochelle and student of Alexander of Hales. He lectured on the Sentences in 1245 and became a master of theology in 1248. He stopped teaching in 1253 when he was succeeded by Bonaventure. William returned to England and taught at Cambridge untill 1255/6 when he returned to Paris to finish the Summa Alexandri.

Works:

Questiones de sacramentis. Edited by Caelestinus Piana and Gideon Gal, Guillelmi de Militona, Quaestiones de sacramentis. Bibliotheca franciscana scholastica medii aevi, vols. 22-23. Quaracchi: Florence, 1961.

Opusculum super missam: Two editions exist. 1) W. Lampen, "Fr. Gulielmi de Melitona magistri Parisiensis, O.F.M. Opusculum super missam Ephemerides liturgicae 43 (1929): 329-44; 392-409; reprinted Quaracchi, 1931 and 2) Aurelianus Van Dijk, "De Fontibus 'Opusculum super missam' Fr. Gulelmi de Melitona, Ord. Min.," Ephemerides liturgicae 53 (n.s. 13) (1939): 311-349.

De differentia contritionis, attritionis et compuctionis: unedited, Turin MS D III. 28, fol. 158

Questiones: unedited, see W. Van Dijk, DS 6 (1967): 1223 for MS references.

Bibliography:

W. Van Dijk, "Guillaume de Middletown," DS 6 (1967): 1221-4
Glorieux, Répertoire, 2: 34-6, n. 304
Doucet, Maitres, pp. 12-15.
Doucet, Prolegomena, 240-3
Stegmüller, 2 (1950): 418-28
Schneyer, 2 (1970): 493-4