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Marco Toste has a PhD in medieval philosophy from the University of Fribourg (CH). He is an integrated member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies (IEF), where his research falls under the strategic area "Care - Heritage and History of Philosophy". Toste has recently been awarded a position to carry out a six-year research project on human acts and scholastic ethics. He is currently co-editing the volume dedicated to medieval Europe of "The Cambridge History of Rights" and a volume on the philosophy of Francisco de Vitoria (under contract with Brill). He has published extensively on medieval political thought and on late scholasticism; he is the author of Petrus de Alvernia, "Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. A Critical Edition and Study" (Leuven, 2022) and co-editor of "Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae' from the 15th to the 17th Centuries" (Leuven, 2021), "Von Natur und Herrschaft. 'Natura' und 'Dominium' in der politischen Theorie des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts" (Frankfurt-New York, 2018) and "Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century" (Berlin et al., 2015).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marco Fernando Toste Vieira Martins de Sousa

Citation names

  • Toste, Marco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4A1A-75FB-01E1
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6779-9844

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia; Dauber, Noah. The Aristotelian Commentary Tradition: A Reader in Medieval Political Thought. Washington, DC, United States: Catholic University Press. 2024.
    Under revision
  2. Lanza, Lidia; Toste, Marco. The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume 2: The Middle Ages. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2023.
    Under revision • Editor
  3. Toste, Marco. Petrus de Alvernia, Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. A Critical Edition and Study. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. 2022.
    Published
  4. Lanza, Lidia; Toste, Marco. Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae' from the 15th to the 17th Centuries. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. 2021.
    Published • Editor
  5. Carron, Delphine; Lutz-Bachmann, Matthias; Spindler, Anselm; Toste, Marco. Von Natur und Herrschaft. 'Natura' und 'Dominium' in der politischen Theorie des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt - New York, Germany: Campus Verlag. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  6. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia; Flüeler, Christoph. Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century. Berlin - München - Boston, Germany: De Gruyter. 2015.
    Published • 10.1515/9783110228496 • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Toste, Marco. "Non-Christians and the Christian Language of Rights". In The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume 2: The Middle Ages. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  2. Toste, Marco. "The Early Commentaries on the 'Politics' as the missing link between Marsilius and Aristotle". In Marsilius of Padua. Between history, politics and philosophy, 59-78. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023.
    In press
  3. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia. "The commentary tradition on the 'Summa Theologiae'". In Summistae: The commentary tradition on Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae' from the 15th to the 17th centuries, 3-93. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2021.
    Published
  4. Toste, Marco. "Between self-preservation and self-sacrifice: The debate in 16th-Century Scholasticism". In Summistae: The commentary tradition on Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae', 361-392. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2021.
    Published
  5. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia. "The influence of Salamanca in the Iberian Peninsula: The case of the Faculties of Theology of Coimbra and Évora". In The School of Salamanca: A case of global knowledge production, 120-168. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021.
    Published
  6. Toste, Marco. "'Tantum pauper quantum diues, tantum ydiota quantum studiosus': How medieval authors made sense of democracy". In Von Natur und Herrschaft. ‘Natura’ und ‘Dominium’ in der politischen Theorie des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, 281-351. Frankfurt - New York, Germany: Campus Verlag, 2018.
    Published
  7. Toste, Marco. "'Parvi flores' and 'Philosophia practica': Medieval florilegia and the Aristotelian commentaries of the Arts Faculty". In Les 'Auctoritates Aristotelis', leur utilisation et leur influence chez les auteurs médiévaux, 51-85. Barcelona, Spain: F.I.D.E.M. - Brepols, 2017.
    Published
  8. Toste, Marco. "An original way of commenting on the fifth book of Aristotle's 'Politics': The 'Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum' of Peter of Auvergne". In Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century, 321-353. Berlin - München - Boston, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
    Published
  9. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia. "A Census of Peter of Auvergne's Works". In Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century, 415-515. Berlin - München - Boston, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
    Published
  10. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia. "The commentaries on Peter Lombard's 'Sentences' in sixteenth-century Iberian Scholasticism". In Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, 416-503. Leiden - Boston, Netherlands: Brill, 2015.
    Published
  11. Toste, Marco. "The bridle-maker and the Pope: The use of causality in John of Paris’s "De regia potestate et papali" and in the early "De potestate papae" treatises". In John of Paris: beyond royal and papal power, edited by Jones, Chris, 309-360. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015.
    Published
  12. Toste, Marco. "Unjust laws and moral obligation in the sixteenth-century Salamancan commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s "De legibus"". In .), Right and nature in the First and Second Scholasticism. Acts of the XVIIth annual colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 15-18 September 2010, 93-123. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014.
    Published
  13. Toste, Marco. "The naturalness of human association in medieval political thought revisited". In La nature comme source de la morale au Moyen Âge, 113-188. Florença, Italy: S.I.S.M.E.L. - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014.
    Published
  14. Toste, Marco. ""Specula principum Lusitaniae". The importance of Aristotle’s practical works". In Universalità della ragione: pluralità delle filosofie nel Medioevo. XII Congresso internazionale di filosofia medievale, Palermo, 17-22 settembre 2007, 451-458. Palermo, Italy: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2012.
    Published
  15. Toste, Marco. "The teaching of moral philosophy in sixteenth-century Protestant universities and Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics": The case of Tübingen". In Tübingen: Eine Universität zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus, 299-335. Ostfildern, Germany: Thorbecke, 2012.
    Published
  16. Toste, Marco. ""Pro patria mori": The debate in the medieval Aristotelian tradition". In Il bene comune. Forme di governo e gerarchie sociali nel basso medioevo. Atti del XLVIII convegno storico internazionale, Todi, 9-12 de Outubro de 2011, 391-418. Spoleto, Italy: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2012.
    Published
  17. Toste, Marco. "Evolution within tradition: The vernacular works on Aristotle’s "Politics" in sixteenth-century Italy". In Thinking politics in the vernacular: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by Briguglia, Gianluca; Ricklin, Thomas, 189-211. Fribourg, Switzerland: Universitätsverlag, 2011.
    Published
  18. Toste, Marco. ""Utrum felix indigeat amicis". The reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty of Paris". In Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages: Commentaries on Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics", 1200-1500, edited by Bejczy, István, 173-195. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2007.
    Published
  19. Toste, Marco. "Virtue and the city: The virtues of the ruler and the citizen in the medieval reception of the ‘Politics’". In Princely virtues in the Middle Ages, 1200-1500, edited by Bejczy, István; Nederman, Cary J., 75-98. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
    Published
  20. Toste, Marco. "‘Nobiles, optimi viri, philosophi’. The role of the philosopher in the political community at the Faculty of Arts in Paris in the late thirteenth century". In Itinéraires de la raison. Études de philosophie médiévale offertes à Maria Cândida Pacheco, edited by Meirinhos, José (or J.F. Meirinhos; or Meirinhos, José Francisco), 269-308. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: F.I.D.E.M. - Brepols, 2005.
    Published
Book review
  1. Toste, Marco. "Review". Review of Gianluca Briguglia, "Stato d'innocenza. Adamo, Eva e la filosofia politica medievale" 82, 3 (2019): 649-650. https://www.archivesdephilo.com/comptes-rendus/marco-toste/.
    Published
  2. Toste, Marco. "Review". Review of Paul-Alexis Mellet, "Les Traités Monarchomaques. Confusion des temps, résistance armée et monarchie parfaite (1560-1600)" 41, 2 (2010): 556-557. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27867847.
    Published
  3. Toste, Marco. "Review". Review of Michael Hunter, "Editing Early Modern Texts. An Introduction to Principles and Practice" 40, 2 (2009): 586-588. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40540740.
    Published
  4. Toste, Marco. "Review". Review of João Maria André - Mariano Álvarez Gómez (eds.), "Coincidência dos opostos e concordância. Caminhos do Pensamento em Nicolau de Cusa. Actas do congresso internacional realizado em Coimbra e Salamanca nos dias 5 a 9 de Novembro de 2001" 21, (2002): 175-181. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/mediaevalia/article/view/968/884.
    Published
  5. Toste, Marco. "Review". Review of José Chabás - Bernard R. Goldstein, "Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print", American Philosophical Society 20, (2001): 185-189. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/mediaevalia/article/view/966/892.
    Published
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Toste, Marco. "Government, Renaissance Forms of". In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, 2022. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_607-1.
    Published
  2. Lanza, Lidia; Toste, Marco. "Boethius of Dacia". In Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy between 500 and 1500. Springer, 2011. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_90.
    Published
  3. Toste, Marco. "Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona; Bernard of Auvergne; Blasius of Parma; Bradwardine, Thomas; Gerard of Abbeville; Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis; James of Douais; James of Venice; Konrad von Megenberg; Martin of Dacia (Denmark); Michael of Ephesus; Nicholas of Autrecourt; Peter Dubois; Pontano, Giovanni; Ralph Brito". In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    Published
  4. Toste, Marco. "Belisarius Aquaviva Aragoneus; Baxianus de Boldone de Vaude; Bazianus; Benedictus XIII Avenionensis papa; Benedictus de Mallorca; Benedictus Morer de Torla". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005.
    Published
  5. Toste, Marco. "Bartholomaeus de Jaslo; Bartholomaeus Mates; Bartholomaeus de Messana; Bartholomaeus Parmensis; Bartholomaeus Peyroni; Bartholomaeus de Reno; Bartholomaeus Salernitanus; Bartholomaeus de Varignana". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004.
    Published
  6. Toste, Marco. "Bartholomaeus de Bruges; Bartholomaeus Catany; Bartholomaeus Flexerii". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003.
    Published
  7. Toste, Marco. "Augustinus Olomucensis; Augustinus Philippus Florentinus; Augustinus Ritius; Augustinus Rubeus Parmensis; Augustinus Perez de Olivan; Augustinus Tactensis; Augustinus Triumphus de Ancona; Aurelius ab Aquapendente; Aurelius Serenus; Balthasar del Rio; Balthasar Tacco; Baptista Casalius; Baptista Piasius; Baptista Pius Bononiensis; Baptista de Sancto Petro". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002.
    Published
  8. Toste, Marco. "Antonius Haneron; Antonius Laelius; Antonius Lollius de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Nerlius; Antonius Parmensis; Antonius Marcis de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Michaelis de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius de Scarperia; Antonius Ser Salvi de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Trombetta; Athanasius Calcheopylus; Archimatthaeus; Arnolphus de Ghestelle; Augustinus Bonfranciscus Ariminensis; Augustinus de Favaronibus". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  9. Giunti, Chiara; Toste, Marco. "Antonius Siculus Biaxander". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  10. Lanza, Lidia; Toste, Marco. "Augustinus Niphus". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  11. Toste, Marco; Santi, Francesco; Santos Paz, José. "Arnaldus de Villanova". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  12. Santos Paz, José Carlos; Toste, Marco. "Arnaldus Albertini". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  13. Meirinhos, José (or J.F. Meirinhos; or Meirinhos, José Francisco); Toste, Marco. "Armengaudus Blasius". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
  14. Meirinhos, José (or J.F. Meirinhos; or Meirinhos, José Francisco); Lanza, Lidia; Toste, Marco. "Antonius de Scarparia". In C.A.L.M.A.: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Toste, Marco. "The parts and the whole, the few wise men and the multitude. Consent and collective decision making in two medieval commentaries on Aristotle's 'Politics'". Storia del pensiero politico 9 2 (2020): 209-231. https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2279-9818/issue/8038.
    Published
  2. Toste, Marco. "La socievolezza umana nel 'Defensor pacis' di Marsilio da Padova". Philosophical Readings 12 1 (2020): 22-34. https://virgo.unive.it/ojs2/index.php/phr/article/view/139.
    Open access • Published
  3. Toste, Marco. "Invincible Ignorance and the Americas: Why and How the Salamancan Theologians Made Use of a Medieval Notion". Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History. Journal of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 26 (2018): 284-297. http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/Rg26.
    Open access • Published
  4. Toste, Marco; Lanza, Lidia. "Sixteenth-century Sentences commentaries from Coimbra: The structure and content of some manuscripts". Studia Neoaristotelica. A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism 15 (2018): 217-282. https://www.pdcnet.org/studneoar/content/studneoar_2018_0015_0002_0217_0284.
    Published
  5. Toste, Marco. "'Unicuique suum'. The restitution to John of Wales, OFM of parts of some mirrors for princes circulating in late medieval Portugal". Franciscan Studies 73 (2015): 1-58.
    Published
  6. Toste, Marco. "The commentaries on Aquinas’s "Summa Theologiae" Ia-IIae, qq. 90-108 in sixteenth-century Salamanca: A study of the extant manuscripts". Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale (2013): 177-218. https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.BPM.1.103901?role=tab.
    Published
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/01/24 - 2024/01/25 Moral acts, intentions, and omissions: Vitoria and his fellow theologians at Paris
Congress
Congreso V Centenario de la llegada de Francisco de Vitoria a Castilla (1523-34). Precedentes y maestros
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Filosofía, Spain
Distinctions

Award

2018 Chaire Pierre Abélard
Sorbonne Université UFR de Philosophie, France

Other distinction

2023 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)
Max-Planck-Institut fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, Germany
2021 Postdoctoral fellowship
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, United States
2019 Visiting Fellow
Colgate University, United States
2011 NEH research fellowship
Saint Louis University - Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, United States
2009 Research Fellowship
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2008 Doctoral fellowship Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung/Rolf und Ursula Schneider-Stiftung
Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany
2003 Doctoral Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1991 Merit fellowship
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal