Praepositinus (Gilbert Prevostin of Cremona, Prevostinus Cremonensis) (1210) was an Italian scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was a liturgical commentator, and supported a ''res''-theory of

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. He discussed intentional contexts.

Biography

Praepositinus was probably born in

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. Having studied under

Petrus Comestor Peter Comestor (, "Peter the Eater"; ; died 22 October 1178) was a 12th-century Kingdom of France, French Theology, theological writer and university teacher. Life Peter Comestor was born in Troyes. Although the surname (Latin language, Lati ...

and taught at Paris, he was scholasticus of

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in 1196. Returning, he was

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from c. 1206 to 1209. In 1209 he was replaced as chancellor by John of Chandelle; he retired to an abbey and died shortly after, in 1210. To him have been attributed, wrongly, a ''Summa de poenitentia iniungenda'' (unedited), ''Quaestiones'' (unedited) and a ''Summa contra haereticos'' (published by J. N. Garvin and J. A. Corbett at Notre Dame (IN), 1958).">"A Tender Age": Appendix: Contexts and Sources for the Rise of Heresies and Catholic Responses
/ref> The following are authentic: a ''Summa theologica'' of which books I and IV have been published; ''Collecta ex distinctionibus'', a work known by a manuscript in Munich, which expounds Scripture in alphabetical order of the words considered (114); a ''Summa super Psalterium'' (several manuscripts); a ''Tractatus de officiis'' which uses

Jean Beleth Jean Beleth (; –1182) was a twelfth-century French liturgist and theologian. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris theological college. That he was possibly of English origin was a hypothesis discussed by John Pits, and supported by Tho ...

’s ''Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis'' written between 1160 and 1164, but does not know

Sicard of Cremona Sicardus of Cremona (Latin: ''Sicardus Cremonensis''; Italian: ''Sicardo'') (1155–1215) was an Italian prelate, historian and writer. Biography Sicardus was born in Cremona, probably to the Casalaschi family, and probably in the 1150s. His bro ...

’s ''Mitrale'' (early 13th c.). This ''Tractatus'' inspired the ''Rationale'' of

Guillaume Durand Guillaume Durand, or William Durand (c. 1230 – 1 November 1296), also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop o ...

of Mende (it has been edited by J. A. Corbett, Notre Dame, 1969). More than 60

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are allowed to Praepositinus, only one of which has been published (J. Longère, ''Mélanges Dom Bascour'', Louvain, 1980, p. 207-211; preached to clerics at Munich and Paris).

References

* * Joseph N. Garvin, James A. Corbett (1958), ''The Summa Contra Haereticos Ascribed to Praepostinus of Cremona''. * *

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1150s births 1210 deaths Scholastic philosophers 12th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Writers from Cremona Chancellors of the University of Paris Medieval Paris 12th-century Italian philosophers 12th-century writers in Latin {{scholastic-philosopher-stub