John of Salisbury
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John of Salisbury, the 12th Century Bishop of Chartres, demanded to know in 1160 in his opposition to Emperor Frederik I.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2016
John of Salisbury quotes a story about St. Paul which seems to come from the ancient apocryphal Acts of that Apostle.
From The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
The answer is that John of Salisbury was an Englishman, and one of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
John of Salisbury, that charming child of renascence, born out of due time, was first claimed as a Frenchman; then, as this “provenance” becomes untenable, he, and others, are called “Anglo-French.”
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
St. Thomas of Canterbury, and his biographer John of Salisbury.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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