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Life of Friar Bacon and His Exile to Oxford
The account details Friar Bacon’s imprisonment by order of a papal faction, his appeals to Pope Clement IV and later Pope Nicholai V, and his scholarly works. It notes his Opus Majus, aims to reform or undermine church authority, and his eventual release, retirement to Oxford, and death in the order’s college.
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Clement IV
Pépe
Romé
Bacon
Jetont d’Arcoli
Nichologiv
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