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    Peter Comestor (Latin: Petrus Comestor, "Peter the Eater"; French: Pierre le Mangeur; died 22 October 1178) was a 12th-century French theological writer...
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    the Bible accompanied by selections from the Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor (d. ca. 1178), a literal-historical commentary that summarizes and interprets...
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  • this could have been a source for her appearance in Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Comestor's Biblical narrative text then served as the standard...
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    teaching in the Faculty of Theology in 1167. Two years later he succeeded Peter Comestor in the chair of scholastic theology at the cathedral school of Notre...
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    the Bible accompanied by selections from the Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor (d. c. 1178), a literal-historical commentary that summarizes and interprets...
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    teacher. He travelled to Paris in the 1160s, where he studied under Peter Comestor, eventually opening his own school on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève...
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    Stjórn I covers Genesis to Exodus 18 with much additional material from Peter Comestor and Vincent Beauvais. Stjórn II completes the Pentateuch; it is based...
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    Scholastica is a Biblical paraphrase written in Medieval Latin by Petrus Comestor. Completed around 1173, he wrote it for the cathedral school of Notre Dame...
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  • [increasing] power of government was to be exercised.": 132  For example, Peter Comestor (d. 1197) was the first influential scholar to interpret biblical injunctions...
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  • Plough' and Spenser's Muiopotmos," Notes & Queries ns 42 (1995): 286–88. Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum, vol...
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  • in 1312 or 1322. His Bible Historiale was largely translated from Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica, and was later augmented with translations from...
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  • Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle (Historia Caroli Magni, the Historia scholastica by Peter Comestor (a biblical paraphrase written in Latin), Boethius's De consolatione...
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  • (1940). The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. James H. Morey, "Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible, Speculum 68 (1993)...
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  • spiritu et anima is not by Alcher, but disagrees with his suggestion of Peter Comestor as author. Also Liber de anima et spiritu. Summa Theologica SUMMA THEOLOGICA:...
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    revised translations of Maccabees and Ruth. A brief text lifted from Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica is appended to Maccabees to link it to the New...
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  • scholastic Petrus Christus (ca. 1410/1420 – ca. 1475/76), Dutch painter Petrus Comestor (Pierre le Mangeur; died c.1178), French theological writer and university...
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    Villena appropriated biblical discourse, citing several passages of Peter Comestor's paraphrased bible Historia Scholastica which acquiesce in astrology...
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    other eye problems are not mentioned until after the tenth century. Petrus Comestor was one of the first to add an eyesight problem to the legend and his text...
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    Tripartite History by Cassiodorus, and Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor. However, scholars have also identified other sources which Jacobus did...
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    where he is usually referred to as Maniton; as well as in works by Petrus Comestor c. 1160 (Jonithus), Godfrey of Viterbo 1185 (Ihonitus), Michael the Syrian...
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    Benedictine monk Otloh of St. Emmeram (146) Petrus Comestor (198) Peter Tudebode (155) Uncanonized Saint Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny (189) Abbot Regino...
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    princess (b. 1125) Nashwan al-Himyari, Arab theologian and writer Petrus Comestor, French theologian and writer Philippa of Antioch, princess of Antioch...
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  • ISSN 0583-6255. Pacnerová, Ludmila (2002). Staročeský Hlaholský Comestor [The Old Czech Glagolitic Comestor] (in Czech). Prague.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location...
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    Hermann of Reichenau, Bernold of Constance, the Annalista Saxo, Petrus Comestor and Ptolemy of Lucca. Guidoboni et al. 2018. Nelson 2019, p. 387. Fried...
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    seem to have endured for several centuries in some form, for in Petrus Comestor, we read that the wives of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are Phuarpara,...
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    his print shop and in August 1483, he printed his first book, Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Some of his notable publications include a German-language...
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    longer part of the Persian empire. In his Historia Scholastica Petrus Comestor identified Ahasuerus (Esther 1:1) as Artaxerxes III (358–338 BCE) who reconquered...
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    Historia Ecclesiastica – Norman England Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor - 12th century France The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, Robert Lindsay...
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    narrates, as an addition to the Bible, the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor and the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, the history of the world from the...
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    distinct from the later parts of the chronicle text. József Deér (1937) and Péter Váczy (1938) accepted Hóman's theory. Polish historian Marian Plezia (1947)...
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