Adam was born in
Balsham, near
Cambridge, England. He studied with
Peter Lombard at the
University of Paris. He later taught in Paris, teaching
John of Salisbury and
William of Tyre. Further, he may have been a contemporary of Rainald of Dassel (c. 1120 – 14 August 1167) there. Gabriel Nuchelmans surmises that he may have been the first person to introduce the term
enuntiabile, which came to be used in the same sense as
dictum. Many sources have surmised that Adam of Balsham and
Adam, Bishop of St Asaph (or Adam the Welshman) are the same person, but
Raymond Klibansky concludes that they were two different men. The Petit-Pont attached to Adam's name and which crosses the Seine linking the west front of
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (and the site of a former bishop's palace) to the
Left Bank St Michel area would have been the main centre of Adam's intellectual group (it was renamed in 2013 with the addition of the name of
Cardinal Lustiger: 'Petit-Pont Cardinal Lustiger'). ==Works==