biography
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Baconthorpe or Bacon, John
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known as Doctor Resolutus (‘Resolute Doctor’)
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| lived:
| (c.1290–c.1346)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, E England, UK, the grandnephew of Roger Bacon. A Carmelite by training, he taught at Cambridge, and wrote commentaries on the Arab philosopher Averroës. He anticipated Wycliffe's teaching that priests should be subordinate to kings. |
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