John Peckham

About John Peckham

Family

Stephen Peckhamchild

Notable quotes

“As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two benefices, when he ought to be contented with one.”
— De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)
“[Perspectiva communis was written to] compress into concise summaries the teachings of perspective, which [in existing treatises] are presented with great obscurity.”
— as quoted by John Freely, Before Gaileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)
“Like Thoresby in the following century, he was most assiduous in his endeavours to improve the education and the discipline of the clergy of his province; and to this end mainly, summoned the Council which sat at Lambeth, from the 7th to 10th of October 1281.”
— Introduction §1.1 John Peckham
“It has been observed that as Wycliffe displays a bias against prelates and friars, so does Peckham against the secular clergy, and this is shown by his Lambeth Canons. But that monks came equally under his lash when they deserved it, is proved...”
— Introduction §1.1 John Peckham
“Peckham's 'Register' is the oldest of the Canterbury Registers now preserved at Lambeth. The earlier records of the see were removed by Archbishop Kilwardby.”
— Noted: The main facts of Peckham's archiepiscopate are to be drawn from his Register; an account of his life is given in Mr. [Charles Trice] Martin's three valuable prefaces; a detailed account of most of his writings is given on pp. lvi-cxliv of the preface to the third volume.
“Peckham jealously watched over any encroachment of his rights on the part of the temporal power, and was especially careful not to allow clerks to be tried by secular judges. We find him interfering in this way in the case of a murder which shocked the city of London even in that age of violence.”
— Martin's Vol.3 Preface

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