Adam de Howden (Hoveden, Houden/ d. after 1306)
Adam de Howden (Hoveden, Houden/ d. after 1306) OM. English friar. Mentioned in 1290 and 1293 as a friar of the Oxford friary. By then, or shortly thereafter, he must already have started with his degree studies, for between 1298 and 1300 he is the regent lector in the Franciscan studium generale at Oxford (no. 28). He is one of the 22 friars presented on 26 July 1300 to the bishop by the provincial minister Hugh of Hertepole as candidates for hearing confessions in and around Oxford (and one of the eight candidates thereafter selected by the bishop). Between 1303 and 1306, he is regent lector at Cambridge (no. 29. Not without problems, however:. ‘repugnabat statutis universitatis Cantabrig.’>> He protested with the Dominican friar Nicholas of Dale against university statutes that were hostile to the mendicants, eventually appealing to the pope for help. Adam was temporarily excluded from the university, to be integrated again after a compromise settlement negociated by Cardinal Jorz). Several of his Sermones de tempore & de sanctis have survived.
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Sermones Sermones : Oxford, New College, 92 (late 13th cent.) f. 82v
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Worcester Cathedral Q. 46 (late 13th cent.) ff. 113v-116r-246r-247v, 359r-261v, 307r-308v.
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