Peter Quesnel
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Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?) was an English Franciscan friar who became the warden of the Franciscan house at Norwich, England. Quesnel held a high reputation as a "theologian and doctor of the canon law", and was the author of Directorium Juris in Foro Conscientiæ et Juridiciali.
Works
[edit]Quesnel's work is divided into four books:
- De summa Trinitate et fide Catholica, et de septem Sacramentis;
- De iisdem Sacramentis ministrandis et accipiendis;
- De Criminibus quæ a Sacramentis impediunt et de pœnis iisdem injungendis;
- De iis quæ ad jus spectant ordinate dirigendis.
(Little, Greyfriars at Oxford, p. 224 n. 1, Oxf. Hist. Soc.).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Quesnel, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.