Peter Ceffons
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Peter Ceffons[1] was a French Cistercian theologian and scholastic philosopher, who became Abbot of Clairvaux. He is considered an early humanist for his style[2].
He lectured on the Sentences at Paris in the late 1340s, using angle as a metaphor[3]. He was influenced by Adam Wodeham[4], Gregory of Rimini and John of Mirecourt[5].
He wrote a satirical work Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros, an attack on the secular clergy[6]; it is dated to 1352[7].
[edit] References
- D. Trapp, Peter Ceffons of Clairvaux, Recherches de Theologie ancienne et medievale, XXIV (1957), 101-154
- Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone, A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 508.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Pierre Ceffons, Petrus de Ceffons Clarevallensis.
- ^ Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625 (1999), p. 140.
- ^ Norman Kretzmann, Jan Pinborg (editors), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982), p. 582.
- ^ William J. Courtenay, Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (1978), p. 136.
- ^ Katherine H. Tachau, Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham (1988), p. 373.
- ^ Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction
- ^ Chronology of Political & Literary Events
