Friday October 23, 1998: InteLex Corporation is pleased to announce the publication of William of Ockham’s The Work of Ninety Days, translated by John Kilcullen and John Scott. Ockham's Work of Ninety Days, his first major work in a twenty-year campaign against Pope John XXII, is a thorough discussion of the place of voluntary poverty in religious life. It includes a discussion of the place of property in civil life and its relation to natural rights and human law. On property John XXII's views are like Locke's, Ockham's like Hume's; their views were known to Grotius. Appended to the text are two essays by John Kilcullen, "Natural Law and Will," and "The Origin of Property: Ockham, Grotius, Pufendorf, and some others." The text contains a lengthy introduction by Prof. Kilcullen.

John Kilcullen is a graduate in Philosophy of the University of Toronto and of the Australian National University, and is currently Associate Professor of Politics in Macquarie University. His publications include: Sincerity and Truth: Essays on Arnauld, Bayle and Toleration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988); William of Ockham, A Short Discourse on the Tyrannical Government Usurped by some who are called Supreme Pontiffs, ed. A.S. McGrade, translated by John Kilcullen (Cambridge University Press, 1992); William of Ockham, A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings, ed. A.S. McGrade and John Kilcullen (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

John Scott is a graduate in history of the University of Sydney. His publications include an edition, translation and study of William of Malmesbury, The Early History of Glastonbury (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1981); with John O. Ward, Hugh of Poitiers, The Vezelay Chronicle (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, 1992).

Kilcullen and Scott are engaged in an edition and translation of William of Ockham's Dialogus, being published by the British Academy at http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/

Dr. Mark Rooks, Chief Executive Officer of InteLex Corporation said, “We are particularly delighted with this publication for two reasons. This is the first time the complete text of this important work has been translated into English, and its electronic publication is prior to its print publication. This text represents our first medieval publication since our popular Aquinas database, but is the beginning of a planned series of medieval publications both in English translation and in Latin.”

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