John of Salisbury

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1. c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.

John of Salisbury

noun

1. died 1180, English ecclesiastic and scholar; bishop of Chartres (1176–80). He supported Thomas à Becket against Henry II

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Among them: John of Salisbury, the 12th-century English diplomat and bishop who once worried that men phonating at womanly frequencies might “arouse itching in the genitals.”

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The fierce lords of the Strong Arm had hunted the wild woodlands—only, of course, there had always been exceptions like the good Sir Ector of Forest Sauvage—till John of Salisbury had been forced to advise his readers: “If one of these great and merciless hunters shall pass by your habitation, bring forth hastily all the refreshment you have in your house, or that you can readily buy, or borrow from your neighbour: that you may not be involved in ruin, or even accused of treason.”

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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.

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“Princes,” says John of Salisbury, “derive their power from the Church, and are servants of the priesthood.”

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For the adoration paid to Aristotle by the schoolmen of the twelfth century see John of Salisbury’s Metalogicus Lib. ii. c.

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