Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Officiis Ministrorum
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Officiis Ministrorum.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Ambrose of Milan.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's treatise on the virtues cites Ambrose's De Officiis Ministrorum among its patristic authorities on the cardinal virtues.