Jocelin of Soissons explained

Jocelin of Soissons[1] (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.[2]

Bishop

He began work on the present Soissons Cathedral; it only took shape in the 1190s.[3]

Abbot Suger addressed his history of Louis the Fat to him.[4] In the papal politics of the late 1120s and 1130s, Suger counted Jocelin, at Soissons from 1126, as a supporter of Pope Innocent II against antipope Anacletus II, along with other bishops of northern France.[5] [6]

As bishop he founded Longpont Abbey[7] in 1131, a Cistercian monastery supported by Bernard of Clairvaux;[8] Bernard was a correspondent.[9] [10] He favoured the Knights Templars, having participated in the Council of Troyes that gave them full standing.[11] He was present at the 1146 Council of Arras, a probable occasion for the planning of the Second Crusade.[12]

Works

The De generibus et speciebus has been attributed to him.[13] Now scholars call its author Pseudo-Joscelin.[14] It may be by a student of his.[2] The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury attributed to him the view that universals exist only in the collection, not the individuals.[15] [16] [17]

References

Notes and References

  1. Gauslen, Gauslenus, Gauzelin, Goslen, Goslenus, Goslin, Jocelin, Jocelyn, Joscelin, Joscelinus, Joslain, Joslein, Joslin, Josselin; surnamed de Vierzy; sometimes cited as Goslenus Suessionensis or Magister Goslenus, episcopus Suessionensis.
  2. Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
  3. Web site: Abelard condamne au concile de Soissons en 1121. Pierre-abelard.com. 4 January 2015.
  4. Web site: SUGER's Life of Louis the Fat. Falcon.arts.cornell.edu. 4 January 2015.
  5. Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (1987), p. 176.
  6. Web site: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Soissons. Newadvent.org. 4 January 2015.
  7. Web site: Se connecter: LES CHERISEY histoire et gnalogie de la famille de Chrisey. Lescherisey.free.fr. 4 January 2015.
  8. Web site: Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame. Fr.structurae.de. 4 January 2015.
  9. Web site: LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV. Livres-mystiques.com. 4 January 2015.
  10. Web site: LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV. Livres-mystiques.com. 4 January 2015.
  11. Web site: Fondation de La Milice des Pauvres chevaliers du Temple de Salomon. Templiers.net. 4 January 2015.
  12. Jonathan Phillips, The Second Crusade (2007), p. 82.
  13. Book: Turner, William . http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/hop32.htm . Abelard . History of Philosophy . The Athenaeum Press . 1903 . Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
  14. Web site: Medieval Mereology. Plato.stanford.edu. 4 January 2015.
  15. Book: De Wulf, Maurice . http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp171.htm . Anti-Realism . History of Medieval Philosophy . 3rd . P. . Coffey . Longmans, Green, and Co. . 4 January 2015 . Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
  16. Web site: The Problem of Universals from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Ontology.co. 4 January 2015.
  17. Web site: Ars Magica Secretum secretorum : Abelard's Theory of Universals. Granta.demon.co.uk. 4 January 2015.

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