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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: 1266 births, 1266 by country, 1266 deaths, 1266 disestablishments, 1266 establishments, 1266 in Europe, 1266 in law, Conflicts in 1266, Battle of Benevento, Birger Jarl, Dictum of Kenilworth, Koszalin, Duns Scotus, Hethum II, King of Armenia, John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, Henry III the White, Beatrice Portinari, Berke, Manfred, King of Sicily, Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, Zhou Daguan, John of Ibelin, Rigdzin Kumaradza, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania, Ariq Boke, Assize of Bread and Ale, Baraq, Taifa of Murcia, Maol Choluim II, Earl of Fife, Hedwig of Kalisz, List of state leaders in 1266, Saint Arsenije I Sremac, Hugh Bigod, Richer of Senones, Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben, Battle of Mari, Ecu, Nasir ud din Mahmud, Rogerius of Apulia, Burnham Abbey, Treaty of Perth, Palazzo dei Papi di Viterbo, Amadeus of the Amidei, Alghu, Andronikos II of Trebizond, Simon Walton, Peter of Montereau, Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi, Hugh III, Count of Burgundy, Jan Prandota, Maeleoin Bodur O Maolconaire, Odo, Count of Nevers, Shelkar, Sir John de Grey, Aima of the Maldives, Luca Savelli, Sack Friary, Bristol, 1266 in poetry, 1266 in Ireland. Excerpt: Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1265 - 8 November 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis (The Subtle Doctor) for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought. Scotus has had considerable influence on Catholic thought. The doctrines for which he is best known are the "univocity of being," that existence is the most abstract concept we have, applicable to everything that exists; the formal distinction, a way of distinguishing between different aspects of the same thing; and the idea of haecceity, the property supposed to be in each ind...
