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ADAM SCOTUS (fl. 118o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 181 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAM SCOTUS (fl. 118o) , theological writer, sometimes called Adam Anglicus or Anglo-Scotus, was See also:born in the See also:south of See also:Scotland in the first See also:half of the 12th See also:century. About 115o he was a Premonstratensian See also:canon at St See also:Andrews, and some twenty years later See also:abbot and See also:bishop of Candida Casa (See also:Whithorn) in See also:Galloway. He gained a See also:European reputation for his writings, which are of mystico-ascetic type, and include an See also:account of the Premonstratensian See also:order, a collection of festival sermons, and a Soliloquia de instructione discipuli, formerly attributed to his contemporary, Adam of St See also:Victor.

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