Peter Quesnel

English Franciscan

Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?) was an English Franciscan friar who became the warden of the Franciscan house at Norwich, England. Quesnel held a high reputation as a "theologian and doctor of the canon law", and was the author of Directorium Juris in Foro Conscientiæ et Juridiciali.

Works

Quesnel's work is divided into four books:

De summa Trinitate et fide Catholica, et de septem Sacramentis;
De iisdem Sacramentis ministrandis et accipiendis;
De Criminibus quæ a Sacramentis impediunt et de pœnis iisdem injungendis;
De iis quæ ad jus spectant ordinate dirigendis.

(Little, Greyfriars at Oxford, p. 224 n. 1, Oxf. Hist. Soc.).^[1]

References

^ Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1896). "Quesnel, Peter" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

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[1] Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1896). "Quesnel, Peter" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.