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Walter of Bruges

GUALTIERO DI BRUGES

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Also known as: French: Gauthier de Bruges; Latin: Gualterus Brugensis

WALTER OF BRUGES. - Franciscan, b. in 1225, d. in 1307. He was provincial of France and bishop of Poitiers (1279-1306).

He taught in Paris around 1267-69; he is the author of a Commentary on the Sentences (ca. 1261-65; edition of extracts by E. Longpré, in Arch. d'hist. doctr. et littér. du moyen âge, 8 [1933]), and of Quaestiones disputatae (E. Longpré, Louvain 1928).

He is a faithful disciple of St. Bonaventure, whom he follows in the doctrines of illumination, of the innateness of the knowledge of God, and of the hylomorphic composition of spiritual substances.

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BIBL.: E. Longpré, Gauthier de B. O. F. M. et l'augustinisme franciscain au XIIIe siècle, in Miscellanea Ehrle, I, Rome 1924, pp. 190-218; id., Le Commentaire sur les Sentences du b. Gauthier de B., in Etudes d'hist. litt. et doctr. du XIIIe siècle, 2 (1932), pp. 5-24.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 1196.

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Vanni, Rovighi Sofia. “Gualtiero di Bruges.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1196. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/gualtiero-di-bruges.

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Vanni, Rovighi Sofia. “Gualtiero di Bruges.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1196. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gualtiero-di-bruges.

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  title     = {Gualtiero di Bruges},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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