Petrus Blesensis Junior

(Peter of Blois)

Biography

• not to be confused with Peter of Blois, the archdeacon of Bath.
• called Magister.
• Canonicus Cancellarius in Chartres.

Activities as Canonist

• wrote Distinctiones, also known as Speculum iuris canonici.
• Ordo iudiciarius, unknown if he wrote it.

Editions and Sources

• BLESENSIS, Petrus: Opusculum de distinctionibus in canonum interpretation adhibendis seu speculum iuris canonici e cod. Moto, edidit Theophilus Augustus Reimarus, Reimerus, Berolinum 1837.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see entry at Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 207-208.