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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 ...
The same aphorism was attributed to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury, who in 1159 wrote: Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft ...
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 (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.
Gilbert de la Porrée and William of Conches were students of his, and their writings reference his work, as do the writings of John of Salisbury.According to the latter, Bernard composed a prose treatise named De expositione Porphyrii, a metrical treatise on the same subject, a moral poem on education, and probably a fourth work seeking to reconcile Plato and Aristotle.
John of Salisbury, a 12th-century theologian especially coined the term theatrum mundi, characterized by commenting that saints "despise the theater of this world from the heights of their virtue". In several chapters of the third book of his Policraticus , a moral encyclopedia, he meditates on the fact that "the life of man on earth is a ...
The case was recorded in the letters of John of Salisbury, Richard of Anstey's own diary and financial documents from the suit. [1] The case itself was a land dispute as Richard sought to have the lands of his uncle, William de Sackville, bequeathed to himself rather than Sackville's daughter, Mabel de Francheville.
John Bridges (1536–1618) ... He became Dean of Salisbury in 1577. [2] ... Quotes. He is known to have coined the phrase, ...