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Alexander Nequam

(1157—1217) scholar and abbot of Cirencester


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(d. 1217).

A student of theology, medicine, and law at the University of Paris, he became an Augustinian canon at Cirencester (1197–1217). His De naturis rerum, a summation of contemporary ...

Subjects: History — Early history (500 CE to 1500)

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