Jocelin of Soissons

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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]

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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]

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Notes

  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. 1 2 Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
  3. ↑ "Abelard condamne au concile de Soissons en 1121". Pierre-abelard.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "SUGER's Life of Louis the Fat". Falcon.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (1987), p. 176.
  6. ↑ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Soissons". Newadvent.org. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Se connecter: LES CHERISEY histoire et gnalogie de la famille de Chrisey". Lescherisey.free.fr. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame". Fr.structurae.de. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Fondation de La Milice des Pauvres chevaliers du Temple de Salomon". Templiers.net. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  12. ↑ Jonathan Phillips, The Second Crusade (2007), p. 82.
  13. ↑ Turner, William (1903). "Abelard". History of Philosophy. The Athenaeum Press – via Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
  14. ↑ "Medieval Mereology". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  15. ↑ De Wulf, Maurice. "Anti-Realism". History of Medieval Philosophy. Translated by Coffey, P. (3rd ed.). Longmans, Green, and Co. Retrieved 4 January 2015– via Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
  16. ↑ "The Problem of Universals from Antiquity to the Middle Ages". Ontology.co. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "Ars Magica Secretum secretorum : Abelard's Theory of Universals". Granta.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
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