[2] Currently, Wodeham is best known for having been a secretary of William Ockham[3] and for his interpretations of John Duns Scotus.
[4] But Wodeham was also an influential thinker in his own right who made valuable philosophical contributions during his life.
To begin with, Wodeham most likely began his education in England by entering the Franciscan Order sometime between the ages of 14 and 18.
[10] Although Wodeham did not produce much original work during this portion of his life, he appears to have gained the confidence to develop his own views and to think outside of the current paradigm.
At the pinnacle of his career, Wodeham’s willingness to be original resulted in many of his views being regarded as controversial.
According to Brower-Toland, Wodeham’s introduction of this term signified “a fairly radical departure from the standard medieval-Aristotelian substance-accident framework.”[12] Between the years 1329 and 1332, Wodeham’s work became much more widespread and accessible as a result of lectures he gave at Norwich on Peter Lombard’s “Sentences.”[13] The topics at the Norwich lectures were quite diverse.
[24] Eventually Wodeham came back to England and died, possibly from the plague, at Babwell Convent in 1358.