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.Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625 (1999), p. 140.
He lectured on the Sentences at Paris in the late 1340s, using angle as a metaphor.Norman Kretzmann, Jan Pinborg (editors), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982), p. 582. He was influenced by Adam Wodeham,William J. Courtenay, Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (1978), p. 136. Gregory of Rimini and John of Mirecourt.Katherine H. Tachau, Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham (1988), p. 373.
He wrote a satirical work Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros, an attack on the secular clergy;Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction it is dated to 1352.Chronology of Political & Literary Events
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.
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