Jocelin of Soissons

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Jocelin of Soissons[1] (died 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer (commonly Goslenus of Suessonis), with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus[2]. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s[3].

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[edit] Bishop

He began work on the present Soissons Cathedral; it only took shape in the 1190s[4].

Abbot Suger addressed his history of Louis the Fat to him[5]. In the papal politics of the late 1220s and 1230s, Suger counted on Jocelin, at Soissons from 1126, as a supporter of Pope Innocent II against antipope Anacletus II, along with other bishops of northern France[6][7].

As bishop he founded Longpont Abbey[8] in 1131, a Cistercian monastery supported by Bernard of Clairvaux[9]; Bernard was a correspondent[10]. He favoured the Knights Templars, having participated in the Council of Troyes that gave them full standing[11]. He was present at the 1146 Council of Arras, a probable occasion for the planning of the Second Crusade[12].

[edit] Works

The De generibus et speciebus has been attributed to him[13]. Now scholars call its author Pseudo-Joscelin[14]. It may be by a student of his[3]. The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury attributed to him the view that universals exist only in the collection, not the individuals[15].

[edit] References

  • Annales de la vie de Joscelin de Vierzi in Achille Luchaire, Quatrièmes mélanges d'histoire du moyen age (1905)
  • Desmond Paul Henry, Medieval Mereology (1991)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Gauslen, Gauslenus, Gauzelin, Goslen, Goslenus, Goslin, Jocelin, Jocelyn, Joscelin, Joscelinus, Joslain, Joslein, Joslin, Josselin; surnamed de Vierzy.
  2. ^ Universities
  3. ^ a b Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
  4. ^ Abelard condamne au concile de Soissons en 1121
  5. ^ SUGER's Life of Louis the Fat
  6. ^ Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (1987), p. 176.
  7. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Soissons
  8. ^ Gérard II de CHERISY: LES CHERISEY histoire et généalogie de la famille de Chérisey
  9. ^ Structurae [fr]: Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame (1227)
  10. ^ http://livres-mystiques.com/partieTEXTES/StBernard/tome01/lettres/207-253/lettre222.htm#_Toc53287598, http://livres-mystiques.com/partieTEXTES/StBernard/tome01/lettres/207-253/lettre222.htm#_Toc53287599, in French.
  11. ^ http://www.templiers.net/temple/index.php?page=les-premiers-pas-du-temple, http://www.insolite.asso.fr/templiers/montdesoissons.htm, in French.
  12. ^ Jonathan Phillips, The Second Crusade (2007), p. 82.
  13. ^ Jacques Maritain Center: History of Philosophy, Abelard
  14. ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Medieval Mereology.
  15. ^ http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp171.htm, http://www.formalontology.it/universals-history.htm, http://www.granta.demon.co.uk/arsm/jg/abelard.html