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ingtonwasstillauking’sclerk”goingabroaduonnecessarybusiness”
withroyaluprotectionandsafeconduct”.In1350Kilvingtonwasthe
ArchdeaconofLondon.In1354hewasappointedDeanofSaintPaul’s
cathedralinLondon.AlongwithRichardFitzRalph,Kilvingtonwas
involvedinthebattleagainstmendicantfriars.ThestrugglebeganinLon-
donandin1357itmovedtoAvignon,whereFitzRalphappearedtodefend
hisviewsbeforeInnocentVI.KilvingtonwasactiveinthesupportofFitz-
Ralphinhistreatise:IncausadominiArmachaniallegationesmagistriRicardidevoti
viricontraFratres.ItseemscertainthatFitzRalph’sandKilvington’sargu-
mentwiththemendicantscontinuedalmostuntiltheendsoftheirlives.
KilvingtonwasprobablyavictimoftheBlackDeathanddiedin1361,two
yearsafterthepapalbullreconfrmedthemendicantprivileges.Richard
KilvingtonwasburiedinSaintPaul’scathedralinLondon.11
WedonotknowanyofKilvington’sphilosophicalortheological
works,whichmighthavebeenwrittenafterhistransitionfromtheuni-
versitytoapubliccareer.Hisdiplomaticandecclesiasticalcareerdid
notstimulatehisfurtherscholarship,nordidhisbeingamemberin
RichardofBury’shousehold.Apartfromafewsermons,allofKilving-
ton’sknownworksstemfromhisteachingatOxford,andtheyoften
reflectthelivelyclassdiscussions.12Noneofhisworksiswrittenin
theusualcommentaryformat,followingtheorderofbooksinthere-
spectiveworksofAristotle.Inaccordancewiththefourteenth-century
Oxfordpractice,Kilvingtonreducedthenumberoftopicsdiscussedto
certaincentralissues,whichwerefullydevelopedwithnomorethanten
questionsconstitutingacommentary.13Thereductionintherangeof
11
FormoredetailsseeE.Jung,uWorksbyRichardKilvington”,AHDLMA67
(2000),pp.184-225;Eadem,uMiędzyflozofąprzyrodyanowożytnymprzy-
rodoznawstwem.RyszardKilvingtonifzykamatematycznawśredniowieczu”,
Łódź2002;Eadem,uArystotelesnanowoodczytany.KwestieoruchuRyszarda
Kilvingtona”,Łódź2014;Jung,Elzbieta,uRichardKilvington”,TheStanford
EncyclopediaofPhilosophy(Winter2016Edition),EdwardN.Zalta(ed.),URL=
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/kilvington/>.Inthese
worksthereisalsoanextensivebibliography.
12
SeeRyszardKilvingtonuKwestieoruchu”(RicardusKilvington,Quaestionesde
motu),PolishtranslationbyE.Jung,[in:]uArystotelesnanowoodczytany…”,
Łódź2014,pp.107-316.
13
See,forexample,RichardKilvington,QuaestionessuperlibrosEthicorum”,[in:]
uRichardKilvington’sQuaestionessuperlibrosEthicorum.ACriticalEditionwith
anIntroduction”byMonikaMichałowska,Leiden2016,pp.63-336.