John Of Cornwall

John of Cornwall, in Latin Johannes Cornubiensis or Johannes de Sancto Germano was a Christian scholar and teacher, who was living in Paris about 1176. Little is known of his life. From his names, it is surmised that he was a native of St Germans in Cornwall. He studied with Peter Lombard in Paris, and wrote Eulogium ad Alexandrum Papam III, quod Christus sit aliquis homo, a treatise refuting Abelard's doctrine that the humanity of Jesus was only a garment clothing the Logos. The Eulogium (dated 1176 or later) was printed by Edmond Martne in Thesaurus novus anecdotum (Paris, 1717), and by Jean-Paul Migne's in Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus (1844-55), vol. CXCIX. Other books attributed to him are:
  • Apologia de Christi Incarnatione (disputed authorship; perhaps by Hugh of St. Victor).
  • Summa qualiter fiat Sacramentum Altaris per virtutem sanctae crucis et de septem canonibus vel ordinibus Missae. Migne, Patrologiae Latinae, vol. CLXXVII.
  • Merlini prophetia cum expositione. Magdalen College, Oxford (a poem).
  • De diuersa consuetudine legendi Sacram Scripturam. See Friedrich Stegmller, Bibl. 4419; Richard Sharpe, Latin Writers, 229.

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There was an archdeacon of Worcester called John of Cornwall around 1197, who probably was a different person. In the 14th century there were a John of Cornwall who wrote a Speculum Grammaticale, and a Benedictine monk John of St. Germans who wrote a Commentarius in Aristotelis libros duo analyticorum posteriorum (now at the Magdalen College, Oxford); it is not clear whether these were the same person. Jean de Cournouaille was a son of king Charles VIII of France who built the Chateau of Hnan in 1426.

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