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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:01:55 -0500
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: John Quinn <Quinn@webmail.hope.edu>
Subject: Re:  Scotus, no dunce

Slight clarification of the following:

>I do wonder why exactly John Duns, or whoever first
>used the epithet of him, found it useful or necessary.  (Of course, he was
>not the first Johannes from Scotland to be called Scotus, being preceded in
>this by Johannes Scotus Eriugena, or John the Scot, in the 9th century.)

Eriugena was from Ireland.  "Scotus" refers to Gaelic-speaking people; with
the rise of the Scottish nation in the later Middle Ages the Latin
adjective comes increasingly to refer to that kingdom alone (and despite
teh rich linguistic diversity found therein).

jtq



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