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Peter of Poitiers

Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)

(d. 1205) Probable student of Peter Lombard, master of theology (1167), and chancellor of the University of Paris (1193–1205). Peter and his contemporaries helped pioneer the ...

Peter of Poitiers

Peter of Poitiers (1205)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
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67 words

... of Poitiers (d. 1205 ) Probable student of *Peter Lombard , master of theology ( 1167 ), and chancellor of the University of *Paris ( 1193–1205 ). Peter and his contemporaries helped pioneer the *scholastic method by applying *dialectics and *grammar to the study of theology. Jessalynn Lea Bird L. Kolmer , ‘Petrus von Poitiers’, in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (1994), 374–6. P. S. Moore , The Works of Peter of Poitiers ...

Peter of Poitiers

Peter of Poitiers (c.1125)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
224 words

... 1950 ). Peter of Poitiers was the author of several scriptural commentaries, including an Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi edited by P. S. Moore and J. A. Corbett (Notre Dame (IN), 1938 ), and perhaps of a Historia Actuum Apostolorum , sometimes joined to Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica . We have 59 of his sermons addressed to a public of clerics and students. They were little circulated (list in J. B. Schneyer , RLS , 4, 1972 , p. 719-723). P. S. Moore , The Works of Peter of Poitiers Master in Theology and Chancellor of Paris...

Peter of Poitiers

Peter of Poitiers  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
(d. 1205)Probable student of Peter Lombard, master of theology (1167), and chancellor of the University of Paris (1193–1205). Peter and his contemporaries helped pioneer the scholastic method by ...
The Middle Ages to the Reformation

The Middle Ages to the Reformation   Reference library

G. R. Evans

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible

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2022
Subject:
Religion
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4,216 words
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Oxford University Press
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8

...text with a master, who ‘lectured’ upon it to them. That meant taking a short portion of the text and expounding it. The lemmata were given complete by some masters (for example, Gilbert of Poitiers), so that it would be possible to reconstruct the text from them if it had been otherwise unavailable. This was a concession to the problem that students were unlikely to have the full text before them as they listened. (This practical difficulty of the expense and availability of books was addressed in the thirteenth-century universities by pragmatic booksellers,...

5 The European Medieval Book

5 The European Medieval Book   Reference library

Christopher de Hamel

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Subject Reference
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2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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10,077 words
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Oxford University Press
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1

...and Louis XII ); in Bourges ( Jean Colombe , who finished the Très Riches Heures of the duc de Berry); Poitiers (Robinet Testard); Lyons (the Master of Guillaume Lambert , and Jean Perréal ); Nantes; Angers; Rennes; Dijon (probable location of the Master of the Burgundian Prelates); Besançon; and Amiens (birthplace of Simon Marmion). Most of these cities were still making MSS until at least the end of the century. By the 1460s , illuminators were drifting back to Paris. The best-known artists there are Maître François , mentioned in 1473 , and Jacques...

Scévole de Sainte-Marthe

Scévole de Sainte-Marthe  

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(1536–1623).French poet and humanist, nephew of the above. He bought various offices, including that of trésoriergénéral in Poitiers. His varied French poetry is akin to that of the Pléiade ...
distinctions, biblical

distinctions, biblical  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The literary genre of “distinctions” had its root in the annotated reading of the books of the Bible in the schools, and was then widely used in the structuring of ...
Walter of St-Victor

Walter of St-Victor  

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(d. after 1180), prior of St-Victor, Paris (see Victorines). His Contra Quatuor Labyrinthos Franciae was an attack on the dialectical method, directed against P. Abelard, Peter Lombard, Peter of ...
genealogical roll

genealogical roll  

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Genealogical histories in the form of rolls fall into two main types. One is the so-called Peter of Poitiers roll, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi, which is attributed to ...
Olivier Maillard

Olivier Maillard  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
(c.1430–1502)This Franciscan preacher of the Observance, probably of Breton origin, entered the Franciscans and belonged to the convents of Tours, Châteauroux – where he went over to the Observance ...
Robert Pullen

Robert Pullen  

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(c.1080–1146)Born in England, Robert Pullen (or Pulleyn) studied theology, probably in France, taught five years at Oxford, and in 1142 succeeded Gilbert of Poitiers as master of theology at ...
Isaac of Stella

Isaac of Stella  

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(c.1100–c.1178), Cistercian monk. Of English origin, by 1147 he was abbot of Stella (NE of Poitiers). Probably in 1167 he left Stella to set up a monastery on the Île de Ré, off the French coast near ...
Clovis

Clovis  

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(465–511)King of the Franks (481–511). He succeeded his father Childeric (died 481) as king of the Salian Franks at Tournai, and extended Merovingian rule to Gaul and Germany after victories at ...
Jacquerie

Jacquerie  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
A communal uprising or revolt, especially the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1357–8; the term is recorded from the early 16th century, and comes from Old French, ...
Gilbert de la Porrée

Gilbert de la Porrée  

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(d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian. Born c.1080 or slightly later, he taught at Paris before becoming Bp. of Poitiers in 1142. He wrote commentaries on the Psalter and Pauline Epistles, ...
lying

lying  

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Religion
A lie is a statement not in accordance with the mind of the speaker, made with the intention of deceiving. Both in the OT and NT the practice of lying is denounced. Theologians have argued whether a ...
confession

confession  

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A formal admission of one's sins with repentance and desire of absolution, especially privately to a priest as a religious duty.Confession is also used for a statement of faith setting out essential ...
Catalonia

Catalonia  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Catalonia came into being, like the other Christian principalities of the northern Iberian peninsula, after the Arab-Berber conquest of the 8th century. The expeditions made by the Franks and ...
St Leo I

St Leo I  

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(d. 461)Pope from 440. His Papacy is remarkable for the extent to which he advanced and consolidated the influence of the Roman see. He tried to strengthen the Church by energetic central government ...
Walter of St-Victor

Walter of St-Victor (d. after 1180)   Quick reference

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2014
Subject:
Religion
Length:
49 words

...of St-Victor ( d. after 1180 ), prior of St-Victor, Paris ( see Victorines ). His Contra Quatuor Labyrinthos Franciae was an attack on the dialectical method, directed against P. Abelard , Peter Lombard , Peter of Poitiers ( d. 1205 ), and Gilbert de la Porrée...

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