Peter of Corbeil (died 3 June 1222), born atCorbeil, was a preacher and canon ofNotre Dame de Paris, ascholastic philosopher and master of theology at theUniversity of Paris, ca 1189. He is remembered largely because his aristocratic student Lotario de' Conti became pope asInnocent III. In 1198 Innocent appointed him to the sinecures ofprebendary and archdeacon of York. The following year Innocent raised his former master to thesee of Cambrai, an immensely important diocese with a jurisdiction that coveredFlanders. Peter becameArchbishop of Sens in 1200. His interest in the intellectual life of Paris was undiminished: in 1210 he convoked a council at Paris that forbade the teaching, whether in public or privately, of the recently rediscovered Natural Philosophy (thePhysics and very likely theMetaphysics) ofAristotle and the recently translated commentaries on Aristotle ofAverroës (nec libri Aristotelis de naturali philosophia nec commenta legantur Parisius publice vel secreto), texts which were beginning to revolutionize the medieval approach to logical thinking, At the same time the councilconsigned to the public flames a work ofDavid of Dinant that had been circulated since the end of the century,De Tomis, id est de Divisionibus (called the "Quaternuli"), which proposed that God is the matter which constitutes the inmost core of things (de Wulf 1909), a form ofpantheism that was condemned byAlbert the Great andThomas Aquinas.
A manuscript of his commentary onPsalms is at theBodleian Library, Oxford.
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