Author: Thomas of Chobham

Dating: Thomas studied in Paris, probably under Peter the Chanter. He returned to England c. 1190/2. He became part of the curia of Richard Fitz Nigel of London and after 1198 joined the administration of Herbert Poore, bishop of Salisbury. Thomas was subdeacon of Salibury from 1208. From 1222 until 1228 he returned to Paris as a master in theology. He returned once again to Salisbury in 1228 and died there before 1236.

Works:

Summa confessorum: Edited F. Broomfield, Thomas de Chobham, Summa confessorum. Analecta namurcensia, 25. Louvain and Paris, 1968.

Summa de arte praedicandi: Edited Franco Morenzoni, Thomas de Chobham, Summa de arte praedicandi. Corpus Christianorum, continuatio medievalis, 82. Brepols: Turnhout, 1988.

Sermones: Edited Franco Morenzoni, Thomas de Chobham Sermones. Corpus Christianorum, continuatio medievalis, 82a. Brepols: Turnhout, 1993.

Summa de commendatione virtutum et ... verbi Dei et extirpatione vitiorum: Unedited, for MSS see Solignac

Bibliography:

AiméSolignac, "Thomas de Chobham," DS 15 (1991): 794-6 updates the extensive bibliography in Franco Morenzoni, Summa, pp. lxxix-lxxxiii.
Stegmüller, 5 (1955): 355-6
Schneyer, 5 (1973): 627-9