Jocelin of Soissons

Short description: French theologian

Jocelin of Soissons[1] (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Bishop
* 2 Works
* 3 References
* 4 Notes

## Bishop

He began work on the present Soissons Cathedral; it only took shape in the 1190s.[3]

Abbot Suger addressed his history of Louis the Fat to him.[4] In the papal politics of the late 1120s and 1130s, Suger counted Jocelin, at Soissons from 1126, as a supporter of Pope Innocent II against antipope Anacletus II, along with other bishops of northern France.[5][6]

As bishop he founded Longpont Abbey[7] in 1131, a Cistercian monastery supported by Bernard of Clairvaux;[8] Bernard was a correspondent.[9][10] He favoured the Knights Templars, having participated in the Council of Troyes that gave them full standing.[11] He was present at the 1146 Council of Arras, a probable occasion for the planning of the Second Crusade.[12]

## Works

The De generibus et speciebus has been attributed to him.[13] Now scholars call its author Pseudo-Joscelin.[14] It may be by a student of his.[2] The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury attributed to him the view that universals exist only in the collection, not the individuals.[15][16][17]

## References

* Annales de la vie de Joscelin de Vierzi in Achille Luchaire, Quatrièmes mélanges d'histoire du moyen age, Paris: Alcan, 1905.
* Desmond Paul Henry, Medieval Mereology, Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner., 1991.
* Pseudo-Joscelin, Treatise on Genera and Species, edited and translated with an introduction by Peter King, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, 2, 2014, pp. 104–210.

## Notes

1. ↑ Gauslen, Gauslenus, Gauzelin, Goslen, Goslenus, Goslin, Jocelin, Jocelyn, Joscelin, Joscelinus, Joslain, Joslein, Joslin, Josselin; surnamed de Vierzy; sometimes cited as Goslenus Suessionensis or Magister Goslenus, episcopus Suessionensis.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
3. ↑ "Abelard condamne au concile de Soissons en 1121". Pierre-abelard.com. http://www.pierre-abelard.com/itin-Soissons.htm. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
4. ↑ "SUGER's Life of Louis the Fat". Falcon.arts.cornell.edu. http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/408/texts/Sugervie.html. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
5. ↑ Mary Stroll, The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130 (1987), p. 176.
6. ↑ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Soissons". Newadvent.org. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14130c.htm. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
7. ↑ "Se connecter: LES CHERISEY histoire et gnalogie de la famille de Chrisey". Lescherisey.free.fr. http://lescherisey.free.fr/getperson.php?personID=I859&tree=cherisey. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
8. ↑ "Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame". Fr.structurae.de. http://fr.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0012600. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
9. ↑ "LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. http://livres-mystiques.com/partieTEXTES/StBernard/tome01/lettres/207-253/lettre222.htm#_Toc53287598. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
10. ↑ "LET. CCXXII-CCXXIV". Livres-mystiques.com. http://livres-mystiques.com/partieTEXTES/StBernard/tome01/lettres/207-253/lettre222.htm#_Toc53287599. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
11. ↑ "Fondation de La Milice des Pauvres chevaliers du Temple de Salomon". Templiers.net. http://www.templiers.net/temple/index.php?page=les-premiers-pas-du-temple. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
12. ↑ Jonathan Phillips, The Second Crusade (2007), p. 82.
13. ↑ Turner, William (1903). "Abelard". History of Philosophy. The Athenaeum Press. http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/hop32.htm.
14. ↑ "Medieval Mereology". Plato.stanford.edu. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology-medieval/. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
15. ↑ De Wulf, Maurice. "Anti-Realism". History of Medieval Philosophy (3rd ed.). Longmans, Green, and Co.. http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp171.htm. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
16. ↑ "The Problem of Universals from Antiquity to the Middle Ages". Ontology.co. https://www.ontology.co/universals-history.htm. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
17. ↑ "Ars Magica Secretum secretorum : Abelard's Theory of Universals". Granta.demon.co.uk. http://www.granta.demon.co.uk/arsm/jg/abelard.html. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

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