Robert Of Orford (Dominican)
Robert of Orford (), also called Robert of Oxford, Robert of Colletorto or Robert of Torto Collo, was an English Dominican master of theology at the University of Oxford and an early defender of Thomas Aquinas. Life Robert studied at either Oxford or Cambridge, and is said to have been a bachelor of divinity. He may have afterwards gone to the University of Paris before returning to Oxford, but this conjectural. The date at which he became a master is unknown. He was the in a disputation with a certain Richard Clive (known from a Cambridge manuscript) and another with Alan of Wakerfield, the Franciscan master of theology at Oxford, around 1285. He preached a sermon at Oxford on 22 February 1293. Robert's name is incorrectly given as William in one manuscript. Leandro Alberti placed his activity as early 1242, but all other evidence puts it much later. Works Robert's writings include: *, a defence of Thomism against the criticism of William de la Mare's *, a critical response to ...
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