Peter Ceffons Explained

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 and References

1. Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625 (1999), p. 140.
2. [Norman Kretzmann]
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. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/anticint.htm Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction
6. http://www.english.udel.edu/dean/polchron.html Chronology of Political & Literary Events