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BACONTHORPE [See also:BACON, BACO, BACCONIUS], See also:JOHN (d. 1346) , known as " the Resolute See also:Doctor," a learned Carmelite See also:monk, was See also:born at Baconthorpe in See also:Norfolk. He seems to have been the grandnephew of See also:Roger Bacon (Brit. See also:Mus. Add. MS. 19. 116). Brought up in the Carmelite monastery of See also:Blakeney, near See also:Walsingham, he studied at See also:Oxford and See also:Paris, where he was known as " Princeps " of the Averroists. See also:Renan, however, says that he merely tried to justify Averroism against the See also:charge of heterodoxy. In 1329 he was chosen twelfth provincial of the See also:English See also:Carmelites. He appears to have anticipated Wycliffe in advocating the subordination of the See also:clergy to the See also:king.

In 1333 he was sent for to See also:

Rome, where, we are told, he first maintained the See also:pope's authority in cases of See also:divorce; but this See also:opinion he retracted. He died in See also:London in 1346. His See also:chief See also:work, Doctoris resoluti Joannis Bacconis Anglici Carmelitae radiantissimi See also:opus super quattuor sententiarum libris (published 1510), has passed through several See also:editions. Nearly three centuries later, it was Still studied at See also:Padua, the last See also:home of Averroism, and Lucilio See also:Vanini speaks of him with See also:great veneration. See See also:Brucker, Hist. Grit. iii. 865; St8ckl, Phil. d. Mittel. ii. 1044-1045; See also:Haureau, Phil. Scol. ii. 476; K. Prantl, Ges. d.

Logik, iii. 318. For See also:

information as to his See also:life, not found otherwise and of doubtful accuracy, see J. B. de Lezana's Annales Sacri, iv.

End of Article: BACONTHORPE [BACON, BACO, BACCONIUS], JOHN (d. 1346)

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