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    William of Conches (Latin: Gulielmus de Conchis; French: Guillaume de Conches; c. 1090 – c. 1154), historically sometimes anglicized as William Shelley...
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    longer recognised as Pythagorean. Writers such as Thierry of Chartres, William of Conches and Alexander Neckham referenced classical writers that had...
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    Chartrians like Bernard of Chartres and William of Conches, the movement was strengthened by increased access to the works of ancient scholars and thinkers...
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    to survive in Latin translation in western Europe, which led William of Conches (c. 1080–1160) to declare that Plato was Pythagorean. A large-scale translation...
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  • Look up conches in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Conches is the plural form of conch, a type of mollusk. It may also refer to: Conches-en-Ouche, a...
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    influence is evident in De philosophia mundi by William of Conches, in the work of Hugh of Saint Victor, in Isaac of Stella's Letters to Alcher on the Soul and...
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    Guglielmo di Conches (in Latin), Naples: Alberto Morano. Ferrara, Carmine (2016), Guglielmo di Conches e il Dragmaticon Philosophiae [William of Conches and the...
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    Maya art, such conches were often decorated with ancestral images; scenes painted on vases show hunters and hunting deities blowing the conch trumpet. Quechua...
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    field were William of Conches, Bartholomew of Lucca, William of Auvergne, William of Pagula, and Muslim sociologists like Ibn Khaldun. One of the earliest...
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    commentaries on Plato's Timaeus and a range of works by William of Conches that attempted to reconcile the use of classical pagan and philosophical sources...
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  • Scholastic philosopher William of Conches noted the objection of Geoffrey of Plantagenet—count of Anjou in France and father of King Henry II of England—to Galen's...
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    assistance, or power. William of Conches (c. 1090/1091 – c. 1155/1170s) understands 'demon' closer to the Greek 'daimon', reserving the concept of the "devil" only...
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  • of earlier 12th-century thinkers such as Thierry of Chartres and William of Conches, with an early appreciation of the newly translated writings of Aristotle...
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    including Bernard of Chartres, Thierry of Chartres, William of Conches, and the Englishman John of Salisbury. These men were at the forefront of the intense...
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  • Timaeus (dialogue) (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    of the Chartres School, such as Thierry of Chartres and William of Conches, who, interpreting it in the light of the Christian faith, understood the dialogue...
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    condemned by the Council of Sens in 1140 or 1141. William wrote against what he saw as errors in the writings of William of Conches concerning Trinitarian...
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  • Modistae (category Articles with Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    southern part of Europe, where the somewhat opposing tradition of the so-called "pedagogical grammar" never lost its preponderance. William of Conches, Peter...
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  • Isabel of Conches, (fl. 1090) wife of Ralph of Tosny, rode armed like a knight during a conflict in northern France during the late 11th century and was...
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  • of Chartres by 1115 and was chancellor until 1124. There is no proof that he was still alive after 1124. Gilbert de la Porrée and William of Conches were...
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  • 1230–1260) William of Champeaux William of Conches William of Durham William of Falagar William Heytesbury William of Jumieges William of Lucca William of Malmesbury...
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    resuming his education under William of Conches, another famous academic. Henry returned to England in 1147, at the age of fourteen. Taking his immediate...
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    the analysis of Plato's Timaeus by members of the School of Chartres like William of Conches and Bernardus Silvestris led them to interpret the world...
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    Calcidius (category Translators of philosophy)
    Hisdosus and philosophers of the Chartres School, such as Thierry of Chartres and William of Conches. Interpreting it in the light of the Christian faith,...
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  • scholastic philosopher William of Conches on the Timaeus, and it has been supposed that he may have been a pupil of William of Conches. Hisdosus' commentary...
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  • of Conches (c. 1090–c. 1154), French scholastic philosopher, tutor of Henry II of England William of Donjeon (c. 1155–1209), a.k.a. St. William of Bourges...
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    by the French scholastic William of Conches, as cited and translated by Peter Dronke, Fabula: Explorations into the Uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism...
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    Conches-en-Ouche (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃ʃ ɑ̃.n‿uʃ], literally Conches in Ouche) is a commune in the Eure département in northern France. It is located...
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  • text De virtutibus et vitiis by Alan of Lille (written between 1155 and 1165). The attribution to William of Conches was proposed in 1890 by Bernard Hauréau...
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  • standing on the shoulders of giants." The earliest documented attestation of this aphorism appears in 1123 in William of Conches's Glosses on Priscian's Institutiones...
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  • other influences include William of Conches. He contributed to the theory of substance and influenced Roger Bacon's Overview of Grammar. In linguistics...
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