Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- David Luscombe: An Appreciation -- Pertransibunt plurimi: Reading Daniel to Transgress Authority -- How Can We Know Who Holds Legitimate Power? Dante on the Right and the Wrong Uses of Knowledge -- Knowledge of the Origins: Constructing Identity and Ordering Monastic Life in the Middle Ages -- Seeking Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon's Expertise -- The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North: A Twelfth-Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library -- Questioning the Music of the Spheres in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Johannes de Grocheio and Jerome de Moravia OP -- Papal Policy on Judging the Orthodoxy of University Masters, a Research Problem -- Jean Gerson and the Renewal of Scholastic Discourse 1400-1415 -- Controversy and Compromise in Religious Communities in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in der politischen Ekklesiologie der Augustinerschule des 14. Jahrhunderts -- The Power of Wisdom: Four Case Studies of a Late Thirteenth-Century Debate -- Liberty and Limit: Controlling and Challenging Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe -- Peter Abelard's Theory of Virtues and its Context -- The Discipline of the Republic and the Knowledge of the Citizens: What we may Learn from Late Medieval Endowment Practice -- A Bibliography of the Published Writings of David Luscombe -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.