Volume de Mélanges offerts au professeur Jean CéardIn Fontenay-le-Comte, a country rich in Scotist commentators in the period of 1480 to 1520, Rabelais must have practiced or experienced in his youth a via Scoti, traces and criticisms of which remain in his works. Traditionally qualified as obscure, this theological movement was opposed to the eclecticism of the Benedictines, the order that Rabelais joined, as well as to the debonair "Pantagruelian" philosophy, which was not very theological and overly passionate. Besides the best anti-academic bits in Pantagruel, Rabelais owed his favorable environment for fictional writing to Scotism. In the presentation of contingent futures, Rabelais shows an extensive knowledge of the Scotist solution ...