Joanne Capreolus

Education

The following year he finished the first part of his celebrated defensive on commentary on the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Career

He is sometimes known as the Prince of the Thomists. Only scant details of his personal history are known. He was a Dominican affiliated with the province of Toulouse, and a general chapter of his order at Poitiers in 1407 assigned him to lecture on The Sentences at the University of Paris.

He passed examinations for degrees at the Sorbonne in 1411 and in 1415.

After serving for some time as regent of studies at Toulouse, he repaired to Rodez where he laboured at his commentaries completing the three remaining parts in 1426, 1428 and 1433.

Achievements

• He began in 1408 and achieved success.

Views

His Four Books of Defenses of the Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas can be said to have sparked a revival in Thomism.