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This is that rare thing, a book on medieval philosophy that is in danger of being overtaken by events. It was written over about a year, from spring 2019 until early 2020. Then in early spring 2020, as I was finalizing the manuscript, came the COVID-19 pandemic, whose wider repercussions will no doubt still be unfolding as the book goes to press. As I explain in chapter 1, I wrote the book in part as a response to a seeming crisis of authority that has come to dominate the political scene over the past years. It’s impossible to say now what implications this most recent, and far more concrete, crisis will have for my theme. Perhaps our reliance on the expertise of health professionals and epidemiologists will lead to a renewed respect for expertise more generally. Or perhaps there will be a backlash provoked by the economic consequences of lockdown and social distancing. However things turn out, it seems even clearer now than it was when I started writing the book that a well-considered relationship to epistemic authority, an ability to make intelligent use of knowledge that lies beyond our own competence, is vitally important. Indeed it is a matter of life and death.