CLAREMBALDO DI ABRAS

CLAREMBALD of Abras. – A disciple of Thierry of Chartres (q.v.), of whom only a lengthy commentary on Boethius’s *De Trinitate* is known to date, written around 1153 (cf. ed. W. Jansen, Breslau 1926). In this work, C. remains faithful to the exaggerated realism of his master, admitting for all men a single and identical humanity and expressly opposing certain “famous doctors” (namely Gilbert of Poitiers and his school), who attributed to individual men individual humanities. Notable in the commentary is the recourse to Aristotle, especially regarding physical theories; like Thierry, C. accepts the composition of matter and form, so that extreme pantheism may be avoided.