Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer

Jocelin of Soissons

French theologian

Jocelin of Soissons was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.