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.
He lectured on the Sentences at Paris in the late 1340s, using angle as a metaphor. He was influenced by Adam Wodeham, Gregory of Rimini and John of Mirecourt.
He wrote a satirical work Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros, an attack on the secular clergy; it is dated to 1352.
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
- Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Northern Humanism in European Context, 1469-1625 (1999), p. 140.
- Norman Kretzmann, Jan Pinborg (editors), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982), p. 582.
- William J. Courtenay, Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (1978), p. 136.
- Katherine H. Tachau, Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham (1988), p. 373.
- Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction
- Chronology of Political & Literary Events Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine