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This is a list of philosophers working in the Christian tradition in Western Europe during the medieval period. See also scholasticism
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Scholasticism was the dominant form of theology and philosophy in the Western Europe in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries....
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This is a list of philosophers working in the Christian tradition in Western Europe during the medieval period. See also scholasticism
Scholasticism

Scholasticism was the dominant form of theology and philosophy in the Western Europe in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries....
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  • Abélard, Pierre (1079-1142)
  • Adam Parvipontanus
    Adam Parvipontanus

    Adam Parvipontanus was born in Balsham, near Cambridge, England. Hence, he is also known as Adam of Balsham. He studied with Peter Lombard in Paris....
  • Adam Pulchrae Mulieris/Adam de Puteorumvilla
    Adam Pulchrae Mulieris

    Adam Pulchrae Mulieris, also called Adam de Puteorumvilla, was a Paris master who studied under Peter of Lamballe, who flourished in the first half of the 13th century....
  • Adelard of Bath
    Adelard of Bath

    Adelard of Bath was a 12th century England scholar. He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Arabic scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin, including ancient Greek texts which only existed in Arabic form, which were then introduced to Europe....
  • Alain, bishop of Auxerre
    Alain, bishop of Auxerre

    Alain was a Cistercian abbot of La Rivour, and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167. He was a close associate of Bernard of Clairvaux, who was instrumental in getting him appointed bishop, under commission from Pope Eugene III, after a dispute in the diocese....
  • Alain de Lille / Alanus de Insulis / Montepessulano
    Alain de Lille

    Alain de Lille , France theology and poet, was born, probably in Lille, some years before 1128....
    , (c. 1128-1202)
  • Alain de Podio
  • Albric of London
  • Alberich of Reims
    Alberich of Reims

    Alberich of Reims studied with Anselm of Laon. He was a master at Rheims from 1118 to 1136 and the Archdeacon there from 1131 to 1136. He served as Archbishop of Bourges from 1136 to 1141....
  • Albert of Saxony
    Albert of Saxony (philosopher)

    Albert of Saxony...
    , (1316-1390)
  • Albertus Magnus
    Albertus Magnus

    Saint Albertus Magnus, Ordo Praedicatorum , also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican Order Dominican friar and bishop who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful Relationship between religion and science....
  • Alexander of Hales
    Alexander of Hales

    Alexander Hales was a scholasticism theology. He was born at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England ca. 1183, and died in Paris on August 21, 1245....
    , (died 1475)
  • Alexander Nequam/Neckam/of St Alban's
  • Alfred of Sareshel/Alfredus Anglicus
    Alfred of Sareshel

    Alfred of Sarashel, also known as Alfred the Philosopher, Alfred the Englishman or Alfredus Anglicus, was born some time in the 12th century and died in the 13th century....
  • Amalric of Bena/Bène
    Amalric of Bena

    Amalric of Bena was a France theology, after whom the Amalricians are named....
    , (d.c. 1204-1207)
  • Anselm of Laon
    Anselm of Laon

    Anselm of Laon was a France theology.Remembered in the century after his death as "Anselmus" or "Anselm", his name was more properly "Ansellus" or, in Modern French, "Anseau."...
    , (died 1117)
  • Anselm of Canterbury
    Anselm of Canterbury

    Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theology, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109....
    , (1034-1109)
  • Archimattheus
  • Ardengus
    Ardengus

    Ardengus was a bishop of Florence, beginning in 1231. While he was bishop, he introduced reforms and excommunicated the Patarini. He was a canon of Pavia....
  • Arnaldus de Villanova


B

  • Baldwin of Maflix
  • Bartholomew of Bologna
    Bartholomew of Bologna

    Bartholomew of Bologna was an Italian Franciscan scholastic philosopher. He was a follower of John Pecham.He studied at the University of Bologna, and then for a degree at the University of Paris....
  • Bartholomew of Salerno
  • Bartholomew of Tours
  • Benedict of Nursia
    Benedict of Nursia

    Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
  • Bernard of Chartres
    Bernard of Chartres

    Bernard of Chartres was a twelfth-century France Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator....
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
    Bernard of Clairvaux

    Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercians was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order....
    , (1090-1153)
  • Bernard Silvestris
    Bernard Silvestris

    Bernard Silvestris, also known as Bernardus Silvestris, was a Medieval Platonism philosophy and poetry of the 12th century....
  • Berthold of Moosburg
    Berthold of Moosburg

    Berthold of Moosburg was a German Dominican Order theologian and neo-Platonist of the fourteenth century, teaching in Regensburg in 1327.His Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli, written between 1340 and 1361, was a major statement of the importance for Platonism of Proclus....
  • Boetius of Dacia
    Boetius of Dacia

    Boetius of Dacia was a 13th century Denmark Philosophy.Boetius was born in the first half of the 13th century. Not much is known of his early life, and the attempt to connect him to known persons from Denmark or Sweden has not been successful....
  • Bonaventure
    Bonaventure

    Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio , born John of Fidanza , was an Italian medieval Scholasticism theologian and philosopher, the eighth Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly called the Franciscans....
  • Bonushomo Brito
  • Burgundio of Pisa
    Burgundio

    Burgundio of Pisa, sometimes erroneously styled "Burgundius", was an Italy jurist of the 12th century. He was an ambassador for Pisa at Constantinople in 1136....

C

  • Cesare Cremonini
    Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)

    Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino , was an Italy professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism and Aristotle materialism inside scholasticism....
     (1550-1631) alias Caesar Cremoninus
  • Clarembald of Arras
    Clarembald of Arras

    Clarembald of Arras was a French theologian. He is best known for his Tractatus super librum Boetii De Trinitate, a commentary on the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius....


D

  • Daniel of Morley
    Daniel of Morley

    Daniel of Morley was an England scholastic philosopher.Born in Norfolk, he studied at Oxford and Paris. Disgusted by the limitations of the curriculum in Paris, he then went to Toledo, Spain, in search of Arabic translations of Greek philosophy that had become available to medieval scholars after the conquest of Islamic Spain....
  • Dante Alighieri
    Dante Alighieri

    Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
    , (1265-1321)
  • David of Dinant
    David of Dinant

    David of Dinant was a pantheism philosopher. He may have been a member of, or at least been influenced by, a pantheistic sect known as the Amalricians....
  • Denys the Carthusian
  • Dietrich of Freiburg
  • Dominicus Gundissalinus
    Dominicus Gundissalinus

    Dominicus Gundissalinus also known as Domingo Gundisalvo may have been a converted Jew and was the archdeacon of Segovia, Spain and a Scholasticism philosopher....
  • (John) Duns Scotus
    Duns Scotus

    The Beatification John Duns Scotus, Order of Friars Minor was one of the most important theology and philosopher of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought....
    , (c. 1266-1308)
  • Durand of St Pourçain


E

  • Meister Eckhart
    Meister Eckhart

    Meister Eckhart Dominican order , is the most common formula used to refer to Eckhart von Hochheim, a Germany theology, philosopher and German mysticism, born near Erfurt, in Thuringia....
  • Edmund of Abingdon
  • Elias Burneti of Bergerac
    Elias Burneti of Bergerac

    Elias Burneti of Bergerac was a Dominican Order master of theology in the 13th century. According to Kaeppeli, he lectured in Montpellier in the years 1246 through 1247....
  • Erkenfried
  • Everard of Ypres
    Everard of Ypres

    Everard of Ypres was a scholastic philosopher of the middle of the twelfth century, a master of the University of Paris who became a Cistercian monk of the abbey of Moutier of Argonne....


F

  • Francis of Marchia
  • Francis of Meyronnes
  • Francisco Suárez
    Francisco Suárez

    Francisco Su?rez was a Spain Jesuit Catholic priest, philosopher and theology, generally regarded as having been the greatest scholasticism after Thomas Aquinas....
    , (1548-1617 CE)
  • Florentius of Hesden

G

  • Gabriel Biel
    Gabriel Biel

    Gabriel Biel was a Germany scholastic philosopher born in Speyer. In 1432 he was ordained to the priesthood and entered Heidelberg University. He succeeded academically and became an instructor in the faculty of the arts....
  • Gaetano of Thiene
  • Garlandus Compotista
    Garlandus Compotista

    Garlandus Compotista also known as Garland the Computist was an early medieval logician of the eleventh-century school of Li?ge. Little is known of his life....
  • Gaunilo(n) of Montmoutiers
    Gaunilo of Marmoutiers

    Gaunilo of Marmoutiers was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, best known for his criticism of Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument for the existence of God....
  • Gerard of Abbeville
    Gerard of Abbeville

    Gerard of Abbeville was a theologian at the University of Paris, from 1257. He is known as an opponent of the mendicant orders, taking part in a concerted attack that temporarily affected their privileges....
  • Gerard of Cremona
    Gerard of Cremona

    Gerard of Cremona , was a Lombardy translator of Arabic language Islamic science.He was one of a small group of scholars who invigorated medieval Europe in the twelfth century by transmitting Greece and Arab traditions in astronomy, medicine and other sciences, in the form of Translations into Latin , which made them available to every lit...
  • Gerho of Reichersberg
  • Gersonides
    Gersonides

    Levi ben Gershon , better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag , was a famous rabbi, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer....
    , (1288-1344 CE)
  • Gilbert de Oves (van Eyen) Flamingus
  • Gilbert of Poitiers
  • Gilbert de la Porrée
    Gilbert de la Porrée

    Gilbert de la Porr?e, also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis was a scholasticism logician and theology....
  • Giles of Rome
    Giles of Rome

    Giles of Rome , was an archbishop of Bourges who was famed for his logician commentary on the Organon by Aristotle. Giles was style d Doctor Fundatissimus by Pope Benedict XIV....
  • Gonsalvo of Spain
  • Guerric of Saint-Quentin
  • Godfrey of Fontaines
    Godfrey of Fontaines

    Godfrey of Fontaines , whose name in Latin was Godefridus de Fontibus, was a scholasticism philosopher and theology, designated by the title Doctor Venerandus....
  • Godfrey of Poitiers
  • Godefroid de Bleneau
  • Gregory of Rimini
    Gregory of Rimini

    Gregory of Rimini , also called Gregorius de Arimino or Ariminensis, was one of the great Scholasticism philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages....
  • Guiard of Laon
  • Guido of Orchelles
  • Guido Terrena
    Guido Terrena

    Guido Terrena was a Catalan Carmelite canon lawyer and scholastic philosopher....

H

  • Hannibaldus of Hannibaldus
  • Henry Aristippus
    Henry Aristippus

    Henry Aristippus of Calabria, sometimes known as Enericus or Henricus Aristippus, was the archdeacon of Catania and later chief familiaris of the triumvirate of familiares who replaced the Emir Maio of Bari as chief functionaries of the kingdom of Sicily in 1161....
  • Henry Bate
  • Henry of Ghent
    Henry of Ghent

    Henry of Ghent , Scholasticism philosopher, known as List of Latin nicknames of the Middle Ages , also known as Henricus de Gandavo, was born in the district of Mude, near Ghent, and died at Tournai ....
  • Henry of Harclay
  • Henry of Langenstein
    Henry of Langenstein

    Henry of Langenstein, also known as Henry of Hesse the Elder was a Germany theologian and mathematician....
  • Herbert of Auxerre
  • Hermann of Carinthia
  • Hervaeus Natalis
    Hervaeus Natalis

    Hervaeus Natalis was a Dominican Order theologian, the author of a number of works on philosophy and theology. He may have written the Summa Totius Logicae, an opusculum attributed to Thomas Aquinas....
  • Heymeric of Camp
  • Honorius Augustodunensis
  • Hugh of St. Cher
  • Hugh of St. Victor

I

  • Ivo of Chartres
    Ivo of Chartres

    Saint 'Ivo of Chartres' was the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death and an important canon lawyer during the Investiture Crisis....

J

  • James of Metz
  • James of Venice
    James of Venice

    James of Venice was a significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called the first systematic translator of Aristotle since Boethius....
  • James of Viterbo
    James of Viterbo

    Blessed James of Viterbo , known as Giacomo da Viterbo, Jacobus de Viterbo, surname Capocci, and nicknamed Doctor speculativus, was an Augustinian friar and student of Giles of Rome....
  • Jacques de Vitry
    Jacques de Vitry

    Jacques de Vitry was a theology chronicler and cardinal from 1228 – 40.He was born in central France and studied at the University of Paris, becoming a regular canon in 1210 at the church of Saint-Nicolas d'Oignies in the Diocese of Liège, a post he maintained until 1216....
  • Jean Pointlasne
  • Jean de la Rochelle
  • Jerome of Prague
    Jerome of Prague

    Jerome of Prague was one of the chief followers and most devoted friends of John Hus. He was born in Prague to a wealthy family; after taking his bachelor's degree at the University of Prague in 1398, he secured in 1399 permission to travel....
  • Jocelin, Bishop of Soissons
  • John Baconthorpe
    John Baconthorpe

    John Baconthorpe, also Bacon, Baco, and Bacconius was a learned England Carmelite monk.Born at Baconthorpe, Norfolk, he seems to have been the grandnephew of Roger Bacon ....
  • John Blund
    John Blund

    John Blund was an English scholastic philosopher, known for a translation of the De Anima by Aristotle. He taught at Oxford along with Saint Edmund of Abingdon....
  • John Buridan
  • John Capreolus
  • John Dumbleton
    John Dumbleton

    John Dumbleton , one of the Oxford Calculators, was a logician and natural philosopher at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow by 1338....
  • John Gerson, (1363-1429)
  • John Halgren of Abbeville
    John Halgren of Abbeville

    John Halgren of Abbeville was a French scholastic philosopher and writer of sermons, papal legate and Cardinal .In theology he was a follower of Peter the Chanter and Stephen Langton....
  • John of Jandun
    John of Jandun

    John of Jandun was an Averroist philosopher, theologian, and political writer. He was born at Jandun in the Ardennes, in what is now Belgium. He was a leading interpreter of Aristotle and philosopher at Paris, and has traditionally been cited as co-author with Marsilius of Padua of Defensor Pacis....
  • John of Mirecourt
    John of Mirecourt

    John of Mirecourt was a Cistercian scholastic philosopher of the fourteenth century, from Duchy of Lorraine. He was a follower of William of Ockham; he was censured by Pope Clement VI....
  • John de Moussy
  • John Pagus
    John Pagus

    John Pagus was a scholastic philosopher at the University of Paris, generally considered the first logician among the recorded scholastics....
  • John of Paris
    John of Paris

    John of Paris , also called Jean Quidort and Johannes de Soardis was a France Philosophy, Theology, and Dominican Order monk....
  • John Pecham
  • John of Reading
    John of Reading

    John of Reading was an English Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher. He was an early opponent of William of Ockham, and a follower of Duns Scotus....
  • John of Salisbury
    John of Salisbury

    John of Salisbury , English author, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, was born at Salisbury, England.Beyond the fact that he was of Anglo-Saxons, not of Normans extraction, and applied to himself the cognomen of Parvus, "short," or "small," few details are known regarding his early life; but from his own statements it is gathered that he...
    , (c. 1115-1180)
  • Johannes Scotus Eriugena
    Johannes Scotus Eriugena

    Johannes Scotus Eriugena , was an Ireland theologian, Neoplatonism philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius....
  • John of Seville
    John of Seville

    John of Seville was a twelfth-century translator, perhaps however working at Galicia n Limia , for he signed himself "Johannes Hispalensis atque Limiensis", during the Reconquista, the Christian campaign to regain the Iberian Peninsula....
  • John of St. Gilles
  • John of Treviso
  • John Wyclif, (born 1324)

K


L

  • Landulph Caracciolo
  • Lawrence de Fourgère

M

  • Manegold of Lautenbach
    Manegold of Lautenbach

    Manegold of Lautenbach was a religious and polemical writer and Augustinian canon from Alsace, active mostly as a teacher in south-west Germany....
  • Master Martin
  • Marsilius of Inghen
    Marsilius of Inghen

    Marsilius of Inghen was a Middle Ages Dutch people Scholasticism philosophy who studied with Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme under Jean Buridan....
  • Marsilius of Padua
    Marsilius of Padua

    Marsilius of Padua was a late-Medieval Italian scholar, deeply involved in the politics of his time.Born at Padua, Marsilius began studying medicine in his native country of Italy....
  • Martin of Dacia
    Martin of Dacia

    Martin of Dacia was a Danish scholar, master of arts and theology at the University of Paris around 1250?88, and the author of Modi significandi, an influential treatise on grammar....
  • Matthew of Aquasparta
    Matthew of Aquasparta

    Matthew of Aquasparta was an Italian Franciscan and scholastic philosopher....
  • Maurus of Salerno
  • Michael of Massa
    Michael of Massa

    Michael of Massa was an Italian Augustinian Hermit and theologian. He is known both as a scholastic philosopher and as an author of contemplative works....

N

  • Nicholas of Amiens
    Nicholas of Amiens

    Nicholas of Amiens was a French theologian, a pupil of Gilbert de la Porr?e.He is known for a single major work, the De arte catholicae fidei; it is modelled after Euclid's Elements....
  • Nicholas of Autrecourt
    Nicholas of Autrecourt

    Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt , was a France medieval philosophy and theologian.Born in Autrecourt near Verdun, France, Autreourt was known principally for developing skepticism to extreme logical conclusions....
  • Nicholas of Cusa
    Nicholas of Cusa

    Nicholas of Kues was a Roman Catholic cardinal from Germany , a Philosophy, jurist, Mathematics, and an Astronomy. He is widely considered as one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century....
  • Nicole Oresme


O

  • Odo of Châteauroux
    Odo of Châteauroux

    Odo of Ch?teauroux was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher, papal legate and Cardinal . He was ?an experienced preacher and promoter of crusades?....

P

  • Paul of Pergula
  • Paul of Venice
    Paul of Venice

    Paul of Venice or Paulus Venetus was a Roman Catholic Church theologian and logician of the Hermits of the Order of Saint Augustine....
  • Peter Abelard, (1079-1142)
  • Peter Alfonsi
  • Peter the Archbishop
  • Peter Auriol
  • Peter of Auvergne
    Peter of Auvergne

    Peter of Auvergne was a France philosopher and theologian.He was a canon of Paris; some biographers have thought that he was Bishop of Clermont, because a Bull of Boniface VIII of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris a certain Peter of Croc , already canon of Clermont; but it is more likely that they are distinct....
  • Peter le Bar
  • Peter of Candia
  • Peter of Capua
    Peter of Capua

    File:BustoPietroCapuanoAmalfi.JPGPeter of Capua was an Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher, and a Cardinal and papal legate.After a being a teacher at the University of Paris, he was employed by Pope Innocent III as legate....
  • Peter Ceffons
    Peter Ceffons

    Peter Ceffons was a French Cistercian theologian and scholastic philosopher, who became Abbot of Clairvaux. He is considered an early humanist for his style....
  • Peter of Corbeil
    Peter of Corbeil

    Peter of Corbeil , born at Corbeil, was a preacher and canon of N?tre Dame de Paris, a scholastic philosophy and master of theology at the University of Paris, ca 1189....
  • Peter Damian
    Peter Damian

    Saint Peter Damian, Order of Saint Benedict was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Gregory VII and a Cardinal . In 1823, he was posthumously declared a Doctor of the Church....
  • Peter Helias
    Peter Helias

    Peter Helias was a medieval priest and philosopher. Born in Poitiers, he became a pupil of Thierry of Chartres at Paris in the 1130s, also teaching grammar and rhetoric in his school....
  • Peter of Lamballe
  • Peter Lombard
    Peter Lombard

    Peter Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; was a scholasticism and bishop and author of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum....
  • Peter Musandinus
  • Peter Olivi
    Peter Olivi

    Peter John Olivi, or in his native French Pierre Jean Olivi, was a Franciscan theology who, although he died professing the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, became a controversial figure in the arguments surrounding poverty at the beginning of the fourteenth century....
  • Peter of Poitiers (canon)
  • Peter of Poitiers (Chancellor)
  • Peter de Rivo
    Peter de Rivo

    Peter de Rivo was a Flemish people scholastic philosopher, teaching at the Catholic University of Leuven.His views on future contingents were controversial, being opposed by Henry of Zomeren, also at Leuven ....
  • Peter the Small
  • Peter of Spain
    Peter of Spain

    Peter of Spain or, in Latin, Petrus Hispanus is the Middle Ages author of Tractatus, a standard textbook on logic, and often credited with a number of works on medicine....
  • Peter the Venerable
    Peter the Venerable

    Peter the Venerable , also known as Peter of Montboissier, Abbot of Cluny of the Rule of Saint Benedict abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne , France....
  • Pierre d'Ailly
    Pierre d'Ailly

    Pierre d'Ailly , was a France theology, astrologer, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.D'Ailly was born in Compi?gne. He was affiliated with the College de Navarre, University of Paris, where he taught Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Cl?manges....
  • Pierre de Maricourt
  • Philip the Chancellor
    Philip the Chancellor

    Philip the Chancellor was a French theologian and Latin lyric poetry poet. He was the illegitimate son of Philippe, Archdeacon of Paris , and was part of a family of powerful clerics....
  • Plato of Tivoli
  • Prévostin of Cremona


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R

  • Radbertus
    Radbertus

    St. Paschasius Radbertus , was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, and Abbot of Corbie who wrote numerous treatises, expositions and biographies during the Frankish Carolingian era....
  • Radulphus Brito
    Radulphus Brito

    Radulphus Brito was an influential grammarian, based in Paris. He is usually identified as Raoul le Breton, though this is apparently disputed by some.Besides works of grammatical speculation — he was one of the Modistae — he wrote on Aristotle, Boethius and Priscian....
  • Radulphus de Longo Campo
  • Ralph of Beauvais
  • Ralph Strode
    Ralph Strode

    Ralph Strode , England schoolman, was probably a native of the West Midlands .He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, before 1360, and famous as a teacher of logic and philosophy and a writer on educational subjects....
  • Ramon Lull
    Ramon Llull

    Ramon Llull was a Majorcan writer and philosopher born into a wealthy family in Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, then part of the Crown of Aragon, now part of Spain....
  • Raoul Ardens
  • Ratramnus
    Ratramnus

    Ratramnus was a Franks theological controversialist of the second half of the ninth century.He was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Corbie near Amiens; beyond this fact very little is known about him....
  • Richard Brinkley
    Richard Brinkley

    Richard Brinkley was an English Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was at the University of Oxford in the mid-fourteenth century; he produced a Summa Logica in a nominalist vein in the 1360s or early 1370s, and other works....
  • Richard of Campsall
    Richard of Campsall

    Richard of Campsall was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, at the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol College and then of Merton College....
  • Richard l'Evêque
    Richard l'Evêque

    Richard l'Ev?que was a French theologian and early scholastic philosopher, a friend of Robert de Torigni and a disseminator of Aristotle, in the translations of James of Venice....
  • Richard Fishacre
    Richard Fishacre

    Richard Fishacre or Fitzacre was an English Dominican Order theologian.He taught at the University of Oxford, and is thought to be the first there to comment on the Sentences of Peter Lombard....
  • Richard Fitzralph
    Richard FitzRalph

    Richard FitzRalph was an Archbishop of Armagh during the 14th century. He was born into a well-off burgess family of Anglo-Norman/Hiberno-Norman descent in Dundalk, Ireland....
  • Richard de Fournival
    Richard de Fournival

    Richard de Fournival or Richart de Fornival was a Middle Ages philosopher and trouv?re perhaps best known for the Bestiaire d'amour ....
  • Richard Kilvington
    Richard Kilvington

    Richard Kilvington was an English scholastic philosopher at the University of Oxford. His surviving works are lecture notes from the 1320s and 1330s....
  • Richard of Middleton
    Richard of Middleton

    Richard of Middleton was a member of the Franciscan Order, a theology, and philosopher. He was Norman people, and therefore it is impossible to tell whether he came from France or England originally....
  • Richard Rufus of Cornwall
    Richard Rufus of Cornwall

    Richard Rufus of Cornwall was an England Franciscan scholastic philosophy and theologian who studied at Paris and at Oxford.Rufus was one of the first medieval philosophers to write on Aristotle and his commentaries are the earliest known among those which have survived....
  • Richard of Saint-Laurent
    Richard of Saint-Laurent

    Richard of Saint-Laurent was a French theologian of the thirteenth century. He is thought to have been a canon at Rouen.He is known for De laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis, a work printed by 1473, which is a long Mariale or work of praise for the Virgin Mary....
  • Richard of St. Victor
    Richard of St. Victor

    Richard of Saint Victor , was one of the most important Christian mysticism theology of 12th century Paris, then the intellectual center of Europe....
    , (died 1173)
  • Richard Swineshead
    Richard Swineshead

    Richard Swineshead , logician and natural philosopher, was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow certainly by 1344 and possibly by 1340....
  • Robert Blund
  • Robert of Courson
  • Robert Grosseteste
    Robert Grosseteste

    Robert Grosseteste , England statesman, scholasticism, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. Alistair Cameron Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in mediaeval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition"....
    , (c. 1175-1253)
  • Robert of Halifax
  • Robert Holcot
    Robert Holcot

    Robert Holcot was an English Dominican Order scholastic philosopher, theologian and influential Biblical scholar. He was born in Holcot, Northamptonshire....
  • Robert Kilwardby
    Robert Kilwardby

    Robert Kilwardby was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and a cardinal ....
    , (died 1279)
  • Robert of Melun
    Robert of Melun

    Robert of Melun was a English scholasticism Christian theologian who taught in France, and later became Bishop of Hereford in England. He studied under Peter Abelard in Paris before teaching there and at Melun, which gave him his surname....
  • Robert of Paris
  • Robert Pullus
    Robert Pullus

    Robert Pullus was an English cardinal, philosopher and theologian, of the twelfth century....
  • Robert de Sorbon
    Robert de Sorbon

    Robert de Sorbon was a France theology and founder of the Coll?ge de Sorbonne college in Paris.Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the Ardennes d?partement in France, Robert de Sorbon entered the Church and was educated in Reims and Paris....
    , (1201-1274)
  • Roger Bacon
    Roger Bacon

    For the Nova Scotia premier see Roger Bacon .Roger Bacon, Order of Friars Minor , also known as Doctor Mirabilis , was an England philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism....
    , (1214-1294)
  • Roger Marston
    Roger Marston

    Roger Marston was an English Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian.He studied under John Pecham in Paris, in the years around 1270, and probably also at Oxford a few years later....
  • Roland of Cremona
    Roland of Cremona

    Roland of Cremona was a Dominican theologian.He joined the Dominican order at Bologna in 1219. He was a lecturer at the medieval University of Toulouse from its foundation in 1229, and preached against the Cathars in the city....
  • Roscelin of Compiègne
    Roscellinus

    Roscellinus, also called Roscelin of Compi?gne or in Latin Roscellinus Compendiensis and Rucelinus , was a France philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism ....


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  • Siger of Brabant, (1240-1284)
  • Simon of Faversham
    Simon of Faversham

    Simon of Faversham was a thirteenth-century scholastic philosopher. He was born in Faversham and educated at Oxford. He was made Chancellor of Oxford University in January 1304....
  • Simon of Poissy
  • Simon of Tournai
    Simon of Tournai

    Simon of Tournai was a professor at the University of Paris in the late twelfth century. His date of birth is uncertain, but he was teaching before 1184, as he signed a document at the same time as Gerard de Pucelle, the Bishop of Coventry, who died that year....
  • Stephen Bérout
  • Stephen Langton
    Stephen Langton

    Stephen Cardinal Langton was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1207 and his death in 1228 and was a central figure in the dispute between John of England and Pope Innocent III, which ultimately led to the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215....
    , (c 1150-1228)
  • Stephen of Poligny
  • Stephen of Venizy

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  • Thierry of Chartres/Theodoricus Carnotensis
    Thierry of Chartres

    Thierry of Chartres or Theodoric the Breton was a twelfth-century philosophy working at Chartres and Paris, France.The cathedral school at Chartres promoted scholarship before the first university was founded in France....
  • Thomas Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas

    Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
    , (1225-1274)
  • Thomas Bradwardine
    Thomas Bradwardine

    Thomas Bradwardine , often called "the Profound Doctor", was an English scholar and courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury....
    , (c. 1290-1349)
  • Thomas of Chobham
    Thomas of Chobham

    Thomas of Chobham , English theologian and subdean of Salisbury, was born c. 1160, presumably in Chobham, Surrey, England, and died between 1233 and 1236 in Salisbury, England....
  • Thomas of Erfurt
  • Thomas Gallus
    Thomas Gallus

    Thomas Gallus of Vercelli has been described as the last great School of St Victor. He is known for his commentaries on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and his ideas on Affective Theology....
  • Thomas à Kempis
    Thomas à Kempis

    Thomas ? Kempis was a late Medieval Roman Catholic Church monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion....
    , (1380-1471)
  • Thomas of Sutton
    Thomas of Sutton

    Thomas of Sutton was an English Dominican Order theologian, an early Thomist. He wrote a large number of works, in some of which he opposed Duns Scotus....
  • Thomas Wilton
    Thomas Wilton

    Thomas Wilton was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley....

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  • Ulrich of Strassburg
  • Urso of Salerno

V

  • Vital du Four
    Vital du Four

    Vital du Four was a French Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher.He became Cardinal in 1312 and bishop of Albano in 1321....

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  • Walter Burley
    Walter Burley

    Walter Burley , c.1275-1344/5, was a medieval English people logician. He was a Master of Arts at Oxford in 1301, and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until 1305....
  • Walter Chatton
    Walter Chatton

    Walter Chatton was a 14th century Philosopher who regularly sparred philosophically with William of Ockham, famous for his Ockham's Razor.Chatton proposed an anti-razor....
  • Walter of Château-Thierry
    Walter of Château-Thierry

    Walter of Ch?teau-Thierry was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher. He became bishop of Paris in the final year of his life.He wrote on the various meanings of conscience....
  • Walter of Mortagne
    Walter of Mortagne

    Walter of Mortagne was a Scholasticism philosopher, and theologian.He was educated in the schools of Tournai. From 1136 to 1144 he taught at the celebrated School of St Genevieve in Paris....
  • William of Alnwick
    William of Alnwick

    William of Alnwick , Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland.Little is known of his early life....
  • William of Altona
  • William Arnaud
  • William of Auvergne
    William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris

    William of Auvergne was the Bishop of Paris from 1228 to his death in 1249. Very little is known of William's early life, though by 1223 he was already a canon at the Notre Dame cathedral and he had earned a masters degree in Theology at the University of Paris....
  • William of Auxerre
    William of Auxerre

    William of Auxere was a France scholasticism theologian and official in the Roman Catholic Church.The teacher by whom William was most influenced was Praepositinus, or Prevostin, of Cremona, Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206 to 1209....
  • William of Champeaux
    William of Champeaux

    Guillaume de Champeaux , also known as William of Champeaux or Guglielmus de Campellis , was a France philosopher and theology.He was born at Champeaux near Melun....
  • William of Conches
    William of Conches

    William of Conches was a French scholastic philosopher. He sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science....
  • William Crathorne
  • William of Durham
    William of Durham

    William of Durham , who is said to have founded University College, Oxford, England, probably came from Sedgefield, County Durham and was educated at Wearmouth monastery and in Paris....
  • William d'Etampes (Gallicus) (de Stampis)
  • William of Falagar
  • William Heytesbury
    William Heytesbury

    William Heytesbury , philosopher and logician, is best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow by 1330....
  • William of Lucca
    William of Lucca

    William of Lucca was an Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher. He taught at Bologna, in the third quarter of the twelfth century.He wrote a commentary on The Divine Names of Pseudo-Dionysius, combining ideas from Gilbert de la Porr?e with those of Eriugena....
  • William de la Mare
    William de la Mare

    William De La Mare was an English Franciscan theologian.He is known for his opposition to the theology of Thomas Aquinas, expressed in his work Correctorium fratris Thomae....
  • William of Ockham
    William of Ockham

    William of Ockham was an England Franciscan friar and Scholasticism philosopher, from Ockham, Surrey, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley....
    , (ca. 1285-1349)
  • William of Saint-Amour
    William of Saint-Amour

    William of Saint-Amour was a minor figure in thirteenth-century scholasticism, chiefly notable for his withering attacks on the friars....
  • William of Sherwood
    William of Sherwood

    William of Sherwood , was a medieval English people logician and teacher.Little is known of his life, but he is thought to have studied in Paris, as a master at Oxford in 1252, treasurer of Lincoln, Lincolnshire from 1254/8 onwards, and a rector of Aylesbury....
  • William of Ware
    William of Ware

    William of Ware was a Franciscan friar and theologian, born at Ware in Hertfordshire. He almost certainly studied at Oxford University and lectured on the Sentences of Pierre Lombard there, but he is not listed among the Oxford masters....
  • Witelo
    Witelo

    Witelo - also known as Erazmus Ciolek Witelo, Witelon, Vitellio, Vitello, Vitello Thuringopolonis, Vitulon, Erazm Ciolek, , was a Silesian and Poland friar, theology and scientist: physicist, natural philosopher, mathematician....

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