John Milbank - EN COURS - Amour et intelligence chez les franciscains du Moyen-Âge

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The franciscans tended to stress love and the will more than the intellect but again perhaps ironically their work is fantastically intellectual, so if if you compare scotus to aquinas, scotus is about ten times more difficult to read, he's much much more difficult to follow that than aquinas who is in many ways an almost misleadingly luminous kind of writer whereas scotus is full of very very complicated technicalities and that can seem almost like a contradiction you know, these are franciscans they're supposed to be francis didn't even think franciscans should be teaching in universes. How has this happened you know and why are it's these people who are doing this this very very technical stuff and …

But I think part of the answer to that is that somehow for them the intellect unlike for the more dominican tradition has stopped being something mystical in itself so that all the mystic the mystical side of things if you like is more to do with love and the will but when it comes to intellectual matters this has become a very kind of tight logical, technical, mode of inquiry.