John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall, in Latin Johannes Cornubiensis or Johannes de Sancto Germano was a Christian scholar and teacher, who was living in Paris about 1176.
Little is known of his life. From his names, it is surmised that he was a native of St Germans in Cornwall. He studied with Peter Lombard in Paris, and wrote Eulogium ad Alexandrum Papam III, quod Christus sit aliquis homo, a treatise refuting Abelard's doctrine that the humanity of Jesus Christ was only a garment clothing the Logos.
The Eulogium (dated 1176 or later) was printed by Edmond Martène in Thesaurus novus anecdotum (Paris, 1717), and by Hugh of St. Victor).
- Summa qualiter fiat Sacramentum Altaris per virtutem sanctae crucis et de septem canonibus vel ordinibus Missae. Migne, Patrologiae Latinae, vol. CLXXVII.
- Merlini prophetia cum expositione. Magdalen College, Oxford (a poem).
- De diuersa consuetudine legendi Sacram Scripturam. See Friedrich Stegmüller, Bibl. 4419; Richard Sharpe, Latin Writers, 229.
Homonyms
There was an archdeacon of Worcester called John of Cornwall around 1197, who probably was a different person. In the 14th century there were a John of Cornwall who wrote a Speculum Grammaticale, and a Benedictine monk John of St. Germans who wrote a Commentarius in Aristotelis libros duo analyticorum posteriorum (now at the Magdalen College, Oxford); it is not clear whether these were the same person. Jean de Cournouaille was a son of king Charles VIII of France who built the Chateau of Hénan in 1426.
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