Biographical dossier
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas joined Dominican religious life, university teaching, biblical commentary and systematic theology. His historical profile should connect the works to the institutions and controversies in which they were composed.
Chronology and historical sequence
The dossier follows Roccasecca and Monte Cassino, entry into the Dominicans, study under Albert the Great, teaching in Paris and Italy, composition of the Summa works, and death while travelling toward the Council of Lyon in 1274.
Primary witnesses
- The Summa contra Gentiles, Summa theologiae, disputed questions and commentaries are primary intellectual witnesses.
- Early lives and the canonization inquiry preserve biographical testimony.
- University records and condemnations provide the institutional context.
Office, vocation and historical agency
Aquinas was a friar, master of theology and commentator, not a solitary system-builder detached from Scripture, Fathers, liturgy and university disputation. Later Thomism is a reception history with multiple schools.
Geographic itinerary
Roccasecca, Monte Cassino, Naples, Cologne, Paris, Orvieto, Rome and Fossanova define the principal itinerary.
Source path
- Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae and other works
- Canonization-process testimony
- Parisian university and Dominican records
Catalogue record and limits
- Research ID
- catholon:person:person:wd:Q9438
- Catalogue ID
- person:wd:Q9438
- Indexed life span
- 1225 to 1274
- Source index
- PANTHEON_2_2020
The catalogue dates and point anchors support identity and navigation. They do not replace the textual chronology, doctrinal judgement or critical biography above.