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Roquetaillade, Jean de
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Roquetaillade, Jean de (Johannes de Rupescissa), * ca. 1310 (Marcolès (south of Aurillac)), † after 1365 (place unknown) Roquetaillade took the habit of the Brothers Minor in 1332 after studies pursued for five years in Toulouse, and continued his studies as a Franciscan until 1337-1338. He would later judge these youthful years to have been wasted in ‘vain disputations and a great din of useless words’. Jean very soon espoused the cause of the “Spiritual” Franciscans whose principal doctrines related to the teac…
Arnau de Vilanova
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de Vilanova, Arnau, * ca. 1240 (Daroca (Lower Aragon)), † 6 Sep 1311 (Genoa) Vilanova was one of the most extraordinary figures of the Latin Middle Ages. Many questions on his personality remain unanswered even today, so much has legend and hearsay intermingled with reality. Arnau de Vilanova was born in Lower Aragon toward 1240. He became a Master of medicine and married in the 1260s. He then entered into the service of Peter III of Aragon as a doctor. During his years of intellectual formation, he took cour…
