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John of Cornwall (theologian)

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19: 223: 52:. Master John, seeing that, said to him: "Considering that the word originates from a holy page, that is from the gospel, I will inquire it tomorrow with the audience in my public lesson." The master did so, and answered by the laughter of all, he took the occasion to show by more examples what shame and scandal was brought over the clergy by their dark ignorance and illiterateness. 40:? He thought it was the name of a king or another great man. When John asked him in which book he had found the expression, the scholar answered: in the missal. And fetching the book, he showed his master at the end of one column the words 195: 362: 322: 337: 18: 36:
Another example (of the illatinity of contemporary clergy) is the scholar who asked his master John of Cornwall: Who was
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Summa qualiter fiat Sacramentum Altaris per virtutem sanctae crucis et de septem canonibus vel ordinibus Missae
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who expounded Latin at his grammar school in English instead of French. There was also an
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Michael Faletra, "Merlin in Cornwall: The Source and Contexts of John of Cornwall's
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Little is known of his life. From his names, it is surmised that he was a native of
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called John of Cornwall around 1197, who probably was a different person.
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Eulogium ad Alexandrum Papam III, quod Christus sit aliquis homo
25:' report of John of Cornwall's mockery about a scholar reading 123: 119: 76: 61: 151:(1844-1855), vol. CXCIX. Other books attributed to him are: 271:
Michael J. Curley, "A New Edition of John of Cornwall's
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He is not to be confused with the fourteenth-century
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Index


Gerald of Wales
Latin
Christian
Paris
John of Cornwall
archdeacon of Worcester
St Germans
Cornwall
Peter Lombard
Abelard
Jesus
Logos
Edmond Martène
Jacques Paul Migne
Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus
Hugh of St. Victor
Prophetia Merlini
Vatican Library
Friedrich Stegmüller
Richard Sharpe
Cornwall portal
List of Latin phrases
Julyan Holmes
ISBN
1-902917-19-7
"John of Cornwall" 
Catholic Encyclopedia
List of Identifications
The town of St Germans in Cornwall

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