Praepositinus (Gilbert Prevostin of Cremona, Prevostinus Cremonensis) ( 1135 – 1210) was an Italian scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was a liturgical commentator, and supporter a ''res''-theory of

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. He discussed

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s. Having studied under

Petrus Comestor Petrus Comestor, also called Pierre le Mangeur (died 22 October 1178), was a twelfth-century French theological writer and university teacher. Life Petrus Comestor was born in Troyes. Although the name ''Comestor'' (Latin for 'eater', ''le M ...

and taught at Paris, he went to

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in 1196. Returning, he was

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from c. 1206 to 1209. A ''Summa contra haereticos'' from around 1200 was once attributed to him.">"A Tender Age": Appendix: Contexts and Sources for the Rise of Heresies and Catholic Responses
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References

*Georges Lacombe (1927) ''La vie et les oeuvres de Prévostin'' (''Praepositinus Cancellarii Parisiensis (1206–1210) Opera Omnia'') *Joseph N. Garvin, James A. Corbett (1958), ''The Summa Contra Haereticos Ascribed to Praepostinus of Cremona'' *James A. Corbett (editor) (1969), ''Praepositini Cremonensis Tractatus de officiis''

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1150s births 1210 deaths Scholastic philosophers 12th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Writers from Cremona Chancellors of the University of Paris Medieval Paris 12th-century philosophers 12th-century Latin writers {{Italy-philosopher-stub