Peter of Corbeil (died 3 June 1222), born at
Corbeil Corbeil may refer to:
Places
* Corbeil, Ontario, Canada
* Corbeil, Marne, a commune in the Marne département in north-eastern France
* Corbeil-Cerf, a commune in the département of Oise in northern France
* Corbeil-Essonnes, a commune in the so ...
, was a preacher and canon of
Notre Dame de Paris, a
scholastic philosopher and master of theology at the
University of Paris, ca 1189. He is remembered largely because his aristocratic student Lotario de' Conti became pope as
Innocent III. In 1198 Innocent appointed him to the sinecures of
prebendary and archdeacon of York. The following year Innocent raised his former master to the
see of Cambrai
The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( la, Archdiocesis Cameracensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe ...
, an immensely important diocese with a jurisdiction that covered
Flanders. Peter became
Archbishop of Sens
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre'') is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese compr ...
in 1200. His interest in the intellectual life of Paris was undiminished: in 1210 he convoked a council at Paris that forbade the teaching, whether in public or privately, of the recently rediscovered Natural Philosophy (the
Physics and very likely the
Metaphysics) of
Aristotle and the recently translated commentaries on Aristotle of
Averroës (''nec libri Aristotelis de naturali philosophia nec commenta legantur Parisius publice vel secreto''), texts which were beginning to revolutionize the medieval approach to logical thinking, At the same time the council
consigned to the public flames a work of
David of Dinant
David of Dinant ( 1160 – c. 1217) was a pantheistic philosopher. He may have been a member of, or at least been influenced by, a pantheistic sect known as the Amalricians. David was condemned by the Church in 1210 for his writing of the " Quat ...
that had been circulated since the end of the century, ''De Tomis, id est de Divisionibus'' (called the "Quaternuli"), which proposed that God is the matter which constitutes the inmost core of things (de Wulf 1909), a form of
pantheism that was condemned by
Albert the Great and
Thomas Aquinas.
A manuscript of his commentary on
Psalms is at the
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second- ...
, Oxford.
References
*J. W. Baldwin, ''Masters, Princes and Merchants'' (Princeton, 1970) I, p 46, II pp34–7. Baldwin counters his reputation as the brother of the count of Flanders and considers that he was most likely "of low extraction".
External links
Peter of CorbeilWith bibliography.
British History On-line: List 9: Archdeacons: York', ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300'' Volume 6: York (1999), pp. 31–6.
British History On-line: List 30:Prebendaries
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12th-century births
1222 deaths
Scholastic philosophers
12th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France
Archbishops of Sens