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John of Salisbury (late 1110s – 25 October 1180), who described himself as Johannes Parvus ("John the Little"), [1] was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres. Among all the distinguished figures of his age (he) stands out as the most notable representative of that revival of learning which gave the ...
Policraticus or Polycraticus is a work by John of Salisbury, written around 1159. Sometimes called the first complete medieval work of political theory , [ 1 ] it belongs, at least in part, to the genre of advice literature addressed to rulers known as " mirrors for princes ", but also breaks from that genre by offering advice to courtiers and ...
John of Salisbury, Policraticus = 'The Statesman's Book' (1159). Godfrey of Viterbo, Speculum regum (c. 1183), dedicated to his Staufian imperial patrons, father Frederick Barbarossa and son Henry VI. Pseudo-Plutarch, Institutio Traiani (first quoted in John of Salisbury's Policraticus). Gerald of Wales, De instructione principis (c. 1193)
John Salisbury, O.S.B. (died 1573) was a Welsh clergyman who held high office in the pre- and post-Reformation church in England. He was the last Abbot of Titchfield; the abbey was dissolved in December 1537. [1] Under the provisions of the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534, he was appointed and consecrated Bishop of Thetford on 19 March 1536. [2]
John of Salisbury gave it a definitive Latin high medieval form in his Policraticus around 1159: the king was the body's head; the priest was the soul; the councillors were the heart; the eyes, ears, and tongue were the magistrates of the law; one hand, the army, held a weapon; the other, without a weapon, was the realm's justice. The body's ...
John Salisbury may refer to: John Salisbury (MP) for Leominster (UK Parliament constituency) John Salisbury (athlete) (born 1934), British athlete; John Salisbury (bishop) (died 1573), Welsh clergyman; John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., American roboticist; John of Salisbury (c. 1120–1180), English author, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres
He taught John of Salisbury at Chartres in 1137 and 1138, and John later considered him the most accomplished grammarian of his time [1] or just after his master Bernard. [c] John describes his method of teaching in detail, noting it followed Bernard and both followed Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria. [1]
John Davenant (20 May 1572 – 20 April 1641) was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621. He also served as one of the English delegates to the Synod of Dort . Life