Ralph Strode
Ralph Strode[1] (fl. 1350 – 1400), English schoolman, and putative poet, was probably a native of the West Midlands.
He was a fellow of
Besides his Logica, he wrote Consequentiae, a treatise on the
"O moral Gower, this book I directe
To the, and to the, philosophical Strode,
To vouchen sauf, ther nede is, to correcte,
Of youre benignités and zeles goode.— (Book V, 1856-1860)
Modern English translation: "O moral Gower, I permit this book to you, and to you, philosophical Strode, to correct, away from your benevolence and zealous goodness." It is quite possible that
According to the 15th-century Vetus catalogus of fellows of Merton, Strode himself was a "poeta nobilis." John Leland and John Bale confirm this, but none of Strode's poems have survived. However, Professor Israel Gollancz suggested that the Phantasma Radulphi attributed to Strode in the Vetus Catalogus could be the 14th-century elegiac poem The Pearl, but this has found little support from later scholars and, on the basis of the poem's dialect, seems very unlikely.
From 1375 to 1385 this Strode or another of the same name was Common Serjeant of London; he died in 1387.
Works
- Logica, (unedited apart from Consequentie and Obligationes; the manuscript can be found in Bodl. MS canon. misc. 219, fols 13r-52v).
- Consequentie Strodi cum commento Alexandri Sermonete, Declarationes Gaetani in easdem consequentias, Dubia magistri Pauli Pergulensis, Obligationes eiusdem Strodi, Venice 1493.
- Wallace Knight Seaton, An Edition and Translation of the "Tractatus de consequentiis" by Ralph Strode, fourteenth century logician and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1973).
Notes
References
- Ashworth, E. J. and P. V. Spade, "Logic in Late Medieval Oxford," in J. I. Catto (ed.), History of the University of Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, vol 2, pp. 56–7.
- Karl Prantl, Geschichte der Logik
- For an attempt to distinguish between Strode the schoolman and Strode the poet, see JTT Brown, in The Scottish Antiquary (1897), vol. xii.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Strode, Ralph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1039–1040. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the