Talk:Richard of Middleton

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Combine?

Seems like

Richard Middleton (Lord Chancellor) and Richard of Middleton may be duplicate articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The.helping.people.tick (talk • contribs) 00:36, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

These articles seem pretty clearly to be the same person. Combine them! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.13.235.45 (talk) 18:56, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Have merged, but don't know quite what to do about the discrepancies in death date. Deb (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I don't know the entire history of what's happened here, but Richard-of-Middleton-the-theologian and Richard-Middleton-chancellor-to-Henry-III are absolutely not the same person. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article about the theologian says nothing about him being Henry's chancellor. None of the reference works about chancellors to English kings say anything about him being a noted theologian. The actual chancellor-Richard-Middleton _was_ a churchman, but he was an archdeacon, not a priest, and certainly not a scholar of any consequence. He was basically an ecclesiastical bureaucrat about whom John Campbell, Baron Campbell, wrote in his THE LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS in 1846: "Richard de Middleton, of whom so little is known that it has been questioned whether his was a layman or an ecclesiastic." Leaving aside the fact that the two Richard Middletons' dates don't match up well at all, this does not sound like a description of the author of _Quodlibeta_ and _Quaestiones disputatae_. pnh (talk) 00:02, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

I also believe the identification is incorrect. And implausible: this Richard was born in 1349, that Richard was Lord Chancellor 1269–1272, and I don't believe the job was given to 20-year-olds. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

So I have deleted the redirect here, and will remove the Lord Chancellor mentions here too. While the Lord Chancellor is notable, there is really very little information about him; and the old article couldn't really be saved. Date of death was probably wrong. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:27, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

You will note from the revision history that in my substantial re-write of this article I had already removed any links to the other Richard of Middleton. Mediavalia ^talk 14:43, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Universal Hylomorphism

Aquinas rejected that doctrine. The way of framing Middleton's relationship to Aquinas and Aristotelianism is thus very misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.109.220.2 (talk) 14:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)