Значение слова NECKHAM в Литературной энциклопедии

ALEXANDER (1157-1217).-Scholar, _b._ at St. Albans, was foster-brother to Richard Coeur de Lion. He went to Paris in 1180, where he became a distinguished teacher. Returning, to England in 1186 he became an Augustinian Canon, and in 1213 Abbot of Cirencester. He is one of our earliest men of learning, and wrote a scientific work in Latin verse. _De Naturis Rerum_ (_c._ 1180-94) in 10 books. Other works are _De Laudibus Divinae Sapientiae_ (in Praise of the Divine Wisdom), and _De Contemptu Mundi_ (on Despising the World), and some grammatical treatises.