John Beston
John Beston was an English theological writer, prior of the Carmelite convent at Bishop's Lynn, was doctor in theology both of Cambridge and Paris, and was highly esteemed as a theologian and a philosopher, and also as a preacher.
In 1423, he was deputed to attend the Council of Sienna. He died at Bishop's Lynn in 1428. His name is in Latin variously written Bestonus, Bastonus, and Besodunus.
Works
- Lecturæ Sacræ Scripturæ
- Sermones in Evangelia
- Sermones in Epistolas Apostolorum
- Compendium Theologiæ Moralis
- De Virtutibus et Vitiis oppositis
- Quæstiones Ordinariæ
- Super Universalia Roberti Holcothi
- Rudimenta Logices
- Epistolæ as diversos
- Sacræ Conciones
- De Trinitate *Determinationes