About Robert Cowton
Lived 1275 – 1313 (aged 37–38). Robert Cowton was an English philosopher.
Robert Cowton was a Franciscan theologian active at the University of Oxford early in the fourteenth century. He was a follower of Henry of Ghent, and in the Augustinian tradition. He was familiar with the doctrines of Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas, and attempted a synthesis of them.
He entered the Franciscan Order before age 13. He presented a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard around 1310. Later, in an abbreviated form, this became a standard textbook of theology.
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Who was Robert Cowton?
Franciscan theologian
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Robert Cowton was born in 1275.
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Robert Cowton died in 1313.
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Robert Cowton was a philosopher.
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Robert Cowton was English.
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