Theobald of Etampes at Oxford Delamotte Lawrence of Arabia A short novel by Fly training at Etampes. Sidney Goodman. BHASE What a pity. It is nice, old and charming royal town sixty kilometers south of Paris. So we give here several touristical notices, by H. More interesting are the personal impressions and descriptions by some famous people as Thomas Jefferson , John Louis Petit and Philip Henry Delamotte, with some very interesting archeological drawings , Edith Wharton and T.
Lawrence , later said of Arabia , and then. From to came the glorious Era of Aviation. Suzanne Bernard. Theobaldus Stampensis. Forerunner of the Oxford University. He is the first scholar known to have lectured at Oxford and is considered a forerunner of Oxford University. Two are written in Caen. The first is a letter written to a certain Philipp, who had committed an undetermined sexual deviation and sustained harassment accordingly ; consoling him Theobald develops the idea that the faults of this kind are not the most serious, and that pride is a far more dangerous sin; he very clearly suggests that those who make profession of chastity often fall into pedophilia.
The second letter is sent to a Queen Margarita, thought until recently to be Saint Margaret of Scotland, died in , but Gineste has shown she is Margaret Fredkulla, Queen of Denmark, still alive in This last quite short letter has subjected to an anonymous monk an endless answer, partly written in verses, which strongly supports the clerics and the canons of the time, and praise in return for the monks, trimmed of all virtues. Place in the history of ideas and traditions.
The major principles of teaching are respect and methodical, in other words reasoned exposure in latin rationabiliter of the Catholic doctrine. His thoughts should be seen in the great debate of his time: for or against the great Gregorian reform; for or against the taking of power within the Church, by the monks, at a time where all the Popes are former monks and attempt to impose by force throughout the clergy their ascetic designs.
Also Oxfordian historiography often saw him as the founder of the University, and in was composed and performed a skit presenting him as the introducer of the enlightenment in Oxford, in opposition to the forces of darkness represented by the monks of Abingdon.
