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]

Bishop

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]

References

  1. 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. 2.[2.2]Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
  3. 3."Abelard condamne au concile de Soissons en 1121". Pierre-abelard.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. 4."SUGER's Life of Louis the Fat". Falcon.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  5. 5.Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (1987), p. 176.
  6. 6.Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). "Diocese of Soissons". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  7. 7."Se connecter: LES CHERISEY histoire et gnalogie de la famille de Chrisey". Lescherisey.free.fr. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  8. 8."Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame". Fr.structurae.de. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  9. 9."LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  10. 10."LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  11. 11."Fondation de La Milice des Pauvres chevaliers du Temple de Salomon". Templiers.net. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  12. 12.Jonathan Phillips, The Second Crusade (2007), p. 82.
  13. 13.Turner, William (1903). "Abelard". History of Philosophy. The Athenaeum Press – via Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
  14. 14."Medieval Mereology". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  15. 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. 16."The Problem of Universals from Antiquity to the Middle Ages". Ontology.co. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  17. 17."Ars Magica Secretum secretorum : Abelard's Theory of Universals". Granta.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2015.