Osbert de Bayeux (floruit 1121 to 1184) was a medieval English cleric and archdeacon in the Diocese of York.
William Warelwast, sometimes known as William de Warelwast (died 1137), was a medieval Norman cleric and Bishop of Exeter in England.
"Buridan's Ass" became an Enlightenment joke at the expense of medieval determinism, specifically that of the French cleric Jean Buridan, whose critics reduced his philosophy to a caricature: between equivalent options, there can be no choice.
The Guard, comparing the kingdom's execution of Sheikh Nimr to attacks carried out by Isis, said in a statement published on Sunday that Saudi Arabia's "medieval act of savagery" in putting the prominent cleric to death will lead to "downfall" of the monarchy.
In citing a medieval guide to inquisitors written by the Dominican cleric Nicholas Eymerich, Murphy notes that the manual suggests ruses for the interrogators to use with their quarry, like feigning compassion, providing food and water, pretending to already know the answers being sought.
"Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jaakko Suomalainen, a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha.
George the Pisidian, Greek Georgios Pisides (flourished 7th century) Byzantine epic poet, historian, and cleric whose classically structured verse was acclaimed as a model for medieval Greek poetry, but whose arid, bombastic tone manifested Hellenism's cultural decline.
C. 601 - c. 649 George the Pisidian, Greek Georgios Pisides (flourished 7th century), Byzantine epic poet, historian, and cleric whose classically structured verse was acclaimed as a model for medieval Greek poetry, but whose arid, bombastic tone manifested Hellenism's cultural decline.
This town's largest mosque is temporarily leaderless, its chief cleric having been expelled from France last week for advocating wife beating, stoning and other medieval Islamic views at odds with the principles of the modern French state.
On a Facebook page started in October 2008, Mr. Almonte posted long quotations from medieval Islamic scholars and present-day radicals like Abu Qatada, considered by many countries to be a terrorist, and the jihadist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.
