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[ca] Mentre exercia de lector logicae a l’studium sollemne que els dominicans tenien a Lleida, Vicent Ferrer redactà dos textos de lògica: la questió De unitate universalis, probablement el sumari de collationes mantingudes amb els seus alumnes, i el tractat De suppositionibus, una exposició àmplia i rigorosa d’un tema complex de fi losofi a del llenguatge, molt debatut a mitjan segle XIV. No són pas textos redactats per un magister artium experimentat, són el fruit de la seva dedicació juvenil (acabava de fer 22 anys) i esporàdica perquè no escriví cap altra obra escolàstica. Cal considerar- los, doncs, l’obra d’un ensenyant precoç, coneixedor tant dels escrits dels pensadors de la seva època –Gualter Burley, Guillem d’Ockham, Joan Buridan– com del pensament d’Aristòtil i de Tomàs d’Aquino.

While working as a lector logicae at the Dominicans’ studium sollemne in Lleida, Vincent Ferrer wrote two logical texts: De unitate universalis, probably a summary of conversations he had had with his students, and De supposi tionibus, a lengthy and rigorous discussion of a complex topic in philosophy of language, widely debated in the mid-14th century. They are not texts written by an experi enced magister artium; they are the result of his sporadic, youthful endeavour (he was 22 years old) and he did not write any other scholastic work. Hence, they must be regarded as the work of a young teacher, who was familiar with both the writings of the thinkers of his time –Walter Burley, William of Ockham, Jean Buridan– and the thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

This study proposes reading of Tirant lo Blanch in the light of Vegetius’ Epitoma rei militaris, the military manual par excellence of the Middle Ages. Indeed, in the prologue to what we now consider a chivalric novel, Joanot Martorell describes his book as a manual, in which military practice, beyond mere exercise and sport, is primarily an art that offers the hero a means of social advancement and the chance to command an empire.