——. Quaestiones disputatae de incarnatione et de lapsu aliaeque selectae de Christo et de
Eucharistia, ed. PP.Collegii S.Bonaventurae. 2nd ed. Quaracchi, Florence: Typographia
Collegii S.Bonaventurae, 1957.
——. Quaestiones disputatae de productione rerum et de providentia, ed. Gedeonis Gal.
Quaracchi, Florence: Typographia Collegii S.Bonaventurae, 1956.
——. Ten Disputed Questions on Knowledge. In Selections from Medieval Philosophers, ed.
Richard McKeon. 2 vols. New York: Scribner, 1929–30, Vol. 1, pp. 242–302.
Hayes, Zachary. The General Doctrine of Creation in the Thirteenth Century, with Special
Emphasis on Matthew of Aquasparta. Munich: Schoningh, 1964.
MATTHIEU D’ARRAS
(d. 1352). Born in northern France, Matthieu d’Arras was in Avignon when hired by
Emperor Charles IV to design and build the new cathedral of Prague. He supervised the
construction of Saint-Vitus from the laying of its foundation stone on November 21,
1344, until his death, completing eight choir chapels together with the corresponding
arcades of the main vessel to the height of the triforium. Although nothing is known of
Matthieu’s other buildings prior to Prague, his plan for the cathedral reveals a strong
influence from Narbonne, the most monumental of recent French episcopal projects.
Matthieu’s work is often branded as traditional and overshadowed by that of his
successor, Peter Parler, yet his piers anticipate Late Gothic design in their compact
prismatic forms and reduction of capitals to thin moldings. The subsequent activity of his
workshop at the abbey of Sázava, the Celestine church at Oybin, and the Cistercian house
of Skalice contributed significantly to the spread of the Gothic style throughout Bohemia.
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Bachman, Erich. “Architektur bis zu den Hussitenkriegen.” In Gotik in Böhmen, ed. Karl
M.Swoboda. Munich: Prestel, 1969, pp. 99–109.
Frankl, Paul. Gothic Architecture. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
Héliot, Pierre, and Vaclav Mencl. “Mathieu d’Arras et les sources méridionales et nordiques de son
œuvre à la cathédrale de Prague.” In La naissance et l’essor du gothique méridional au XIIIe
siècle. Toulouse: Privat, 1974, pp. 103–25.
MAURICE DE SULLY
(ca. 1120–1196). Maurice had a strong episcopal career, culminating in his project to
rebuild the Carolingian cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, which led to the cathedral we
know today. It was begun, but not finished, in his lifetime.
Born at Sully, near Orléans, of humble parents, Maurice was a student of Peter
Abélard. By 1147, he was canon and subdeacon of Notre-Dame and master in the
cathedral school. Famed for his preaching, he became bishop of Paris in 1160, on the
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