Peter Ceffons (French: Pierre Ceffons, Latin: Petrus de Ceffons Clarevallensis; fl.1340s) was a French Cistercian theologian and scholastic philosopher, who became Abbot of Clairvaux. He is considered an early humanist for his style.[1]
He lectured on the Sentences at Paris in the late 1340s, using angle as a metaphor.[2] He was influenced by Adam Wodeham,[3] Gregory of Rimini and John of Mirecourt.[4]
He wrote a satirical work Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros, an attack on the secular clergy;[5] it is dated to 1352.[6]
References edit
- 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.
Notes edit
- ^ 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 Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine