[Revised entry by Colleen McCluskey and Anthony Celano on February 21, 2024.
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Philip the Chancellor was an influential figure in a number of different circles in the first half of the thirteenth century. He enjoyed a long though rather turbulent ecclesiastical career and was famous for his sermons and his lyric poetry, the latter of which has received attention by a number of musicologists in recent years (see Dronke 1987, Payne 1991, Traill 2003). In the areas of philosophy and theology, his major work, Summa de bono, which was composed sometime in the 1220s – 1230s, was a ground-breaking achievement…

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