Courtenay W J
Department of History, 455 North Park Street, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Isis. 2000 Sep;91(3):542-8. doi: 10.1086/384854.
It has long been known that Nicole Oresme was a master of arts and a student in theology at Paris by 1348. A recently discovered papal letter of provision granting Oresme an expectation of a benefice establishes that he was already a regent master in arts by 1342. The text of the letter as copied in the papal registers also mentions those persons mandated to help implement the provision, thus revealing part of Oresme's early patronage network, which included an important regent master of theology from Normandy and a bachelor of theology who had been summoned to Avignon in 1340 along with Nicolas of Autrecourt. This earlier dating of Oresme's arts degree places him at Paris during the crisis over William of Ockham's natural philosophy.
长期以来，人们都知道尼科尔·奥雷姆是一名文学硕士，到1348年时他是巴黎的一名神学学生。最近发现的一封教皇授予奥雷姆圣俸期望的委任信表明，到1342年时他已经是文学授课教师了。教皇登记簿中抄录的这封信的文本还提到了那些被授权帮助执行该委任的人，从而揭示了奥雷姆早期的资助网络的一部分，其中包括一位来自诺曼底的重要神学授课教师和一位神学学士，后者在1340年与奥特库尔的尼古拉斯一起被传唤到阿维尼翁。奥雷姆文学学位的这一更早日期使他在奥卡姆的威廉的自然哲学危机期间身处巴黎。
