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Andrew of Cornwall (Andreas Cornubiensis, Andreas de Cornubia, André de Cornouailles) (
fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1290s) was a philosopher at Oxford during the 1290s. He is thought to have introduced Parisian Modism into England, and possibly to have influenced the young Duns Scotus. These conclusions are tentative, since we are almost totally ignorant of the details of Andrew's life, and the dates and location of his activities are not certain.


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* {{cite conference , last = Andrews , first = Robert , editor1 = Sten Ebbesen, editor2=Russell L. Friedman , title = Andrew of Cornwall and the Reception of Modism in England , book-title = Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition: Acts of the Symposium, The Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy, January 10–13, 1996 , pages = 105–115 , year = 1999 , publisher = The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters , isbn = 978-87-7876-148-4 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qEtWUWEzTvwC&pg=PA105 * Grabmann, Martin 1936 "Mitteilungen aus Munchener Handschriften uber bisher unbekannte Philosophen der Artistenfakultat (cod. lat. 14246 u7nd 14388) in id., ''Mittelalterliches Geistesleben'' II. Max Hueber: Munchen. Medieval Cornish people 13th-century philosophers 13th-century English writers