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

  • 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

  1. ↑ Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625 (1999), p. 140.
  2. ↑ Norman Kretzmann, Jan Pinborg (editors), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982), p. 582.
  3. ↑ William J. Courtenay, Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (1978), p. 136.
  4. ↑ Katherine H. Tachau, Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham (1988), p. 373.
  5. ↑ Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction
  6. ↑ Chronology of Political & Literary Events Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
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