# Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition Baconthorpe To Bankruptcy

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## Summary

BACONTHORPE [BACON, BACO, BACCONIUS], JOHN (d. 1346), known as "the Resolute Doctor," a learned Carmelite monk, was born at Baconthorpe in Norfolk. He seems to have been the grandnephew of Roger Bacon (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 19. 116). Brought up in the Carmelite monastery of Blakeney, near Walsingham, he studied at Oxford and Paris, where he was known as "Princeps" of the Averroists. Renan, however, says that he merely tried to justify Averroism against the charge of heterodoxy. In 1329 he was chosen twelfth provincial of the English Carmelites. He appears to have anticipated Wycliffe in advocating the subordination of the clergy to the king. In 1333 he was sent for to Rome, where, we are to...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/encyclopaedia-britannica-11th-edition-baconthorpe-to-bankruptcy-039a0534/chapters/7/index.md)