Adam of Balsham ( or ') (c. 1100/1102 – c. 1157/1169) was an Anglo-Norman scholastic and churchman.
Life
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.