John Peckham
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John Peckham was a Franciscan friar and Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279–1292.
Effigy from Peckham's tomb in Canterbury Cathedral
A manuscript of Roger Bacon's work on optics, which influenced Peckham's own works
Perspectiva, 1556
Catechism
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A catechism is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult conve
John Peckham
…issued as a canon, or law, of the council, and the group is known as the Lambeth Constitutions. Even later these constitutions were collected as the Ignorantia sacerdotum. The six doctrines comprised the minimum theological knowledge the archbishop considered necessary for the laity to know. The constitutions, which were…
Codex Manesse, fol. 292v, "The Schoolmaster of Esslingen" (Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen)
A catechism lesson in a Madras Presidency village (India), 1939
The Catechism Lesson by Jules-Alexis Muenier (1890), Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon.
The Catechism, painting by Edith Hartry