Lope de Barrientos

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Lope de Barrientos (* 1382 in Medina del Campo , Spain , † 1469 in Cuenca , Spain) was a cleric at the time of the Castilian crown. Among other things, he worked as a theology professor at the University of Salamanca , as Bishop of Segovia and Avila and as Inquisitor .

It is difficult to assess his relationship with Álvaro de Luna , favorite of John II of Castile , whose successor as ruler of Castile he succeeded for about a year until the death of John II.

According to its origins, de Barrientos was the son of a servant at the court of Ferdinand I of Aragon .

Works (selection)

  • Clavis Sapientiae - his earliest surviving work, a theological-philosophical encyclopedia about the time;
  • Opusculum super intellectu quorumdam verborum cuiusdam decreti contenti in volumine decretorum, ubi Gratianus, tractans de materia sacrilegii, XVII, q. III, ait: sacrilegii quoque reatum incurrit, qui iudaeis publica officia committit - a discussion of social conflicts that, according to Barrientos, were caused by the Jews ;
  • Tratado de caso e fortuna - following the scholastic teaching and with clear references to Aristotle
  • Tractado de la divinança - treatise on divinity

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