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THOMAS BRADWARDINE (c. 1290-1349)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 375 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:BRADWARDINE (c. 1290-1349)  , See also:English See also:arch-See also:bishop, called " the Profound See also:Doctor," was See also:born either at See also:Hart-See also:field in See also:Sussex or at See also:Chichester . He was educated at Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound See also:scholar, a skilful mathematician and an able divine . He was afterwards raised to the high offices of See also:chancellor of the university and See also:professor of divinity . From being chancellor of the See also:diocese of See also:London, he became See also:chap-lain and See also:confessor to See also:Edward III., whom he attended during his See also:wars in See also:France . On his return to See also:England, be was successively appointed See also:prebendary of See also:Lincoln, See also:archdeacon of Lincoln (1347), and in 1349 See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury . He died of the See also:plague at See also:Lambeth on the 26th of See also:August 1349, See also:forty days after his See also:consecration . See also:Chaucer in his See also:Nun's See also:Priest's See also:Tale ranks See also:Bradwardine with St See also:Augustine . His See also:great See also:work is a See also:treatise against the Pelagians, entitled De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum, edited by See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Savile (London, 1618) . He wrote also De Geometria speculativa (See also:Paris, 1530) ; De Arithmetica practica (Paris, 1502); De Proportionibus (Paris, 1495; See also:Venice, 1505) ; De Quadratura Circuli (Paris, 1495) ; and an Ars Memorativa, See also:Sloane See also:MSS . No . 3974 in the See also:British Museum . See Quetif-Echard, Script .

Praedic . (1719), i . 744; W . F . See also:

Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, vol. iv .

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