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Lombard, Peter (1095/1100–1160)
Peter Lombard’s philosophical views are important given the formative role his Sententiae in IV libris distinctae (Four Books of Sentences) played in the education of university theologians in ...
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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
Bernard was recognized by his contemporaries as the spiritual leader of western Europe. He was an indefatigable advocate of the monastic life and occasionally criticized the schools on ...
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Denys the Carthusian (1402/3–71)
Denys de Leeuwis was born in the village of Rijkel, in modern Belgium. In 1421 he matriculated at the University of Cologne, where he received the Master of ...
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Francis of Meyronnes (d. after 1325)
Francis of Meyronnes, the doctor illuminatus (Enlightened Doctor), was called the ‘Prince of the Scotists’ for his work in systematizing and propagating the philosophy of Duns Scotus ...
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William of Auxerre (1140/50–1231)
William’s career spans the decades at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth century during which the newly recovered Aristotelian natural philosophy, metaphysics ...
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Crathorn, William (fl. c.1330)
An English scholastic a generation younger than William of Ockham, Crathorn’s theological writings confront the central metaphysical and epistemological problems of his day. He is of interest largely ...
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Brinkley, Richard (fl. 1350–73)
Richard Brinkley was a Franciscan theologian at the University of Oxford in the latter half of the fourteenth century. Probably at the request of his superiors, he undertook ...
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Gerard of Odo (c.1290–c.1349)
Gerard of Odo, a scholastic philosopher and theologian who wrote a long commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, is one of many scholastics who attempted to reconcile Aristotle’s teachings ...
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Henry of Harclay (c.1270–1317)
An English philosopher of the early fourteenth century, Harclay moved away from the position of Duns Scotus on the extramental existence of universals and towards the more conceptualist ...
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Joachim of Fiore (c.1135–1202)
Joachim was a charismatic monastic reformer and inventive scriptural exegete whose study of the Bible led him to propound complex theories of history. Especially interested in the Apocalypse ...
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John of Damascus (c.675–c.750)
John of Damascus, who lived in the seventh and eighth centuries, is known for his Fount of Knowledge, which became the standard textbook of theology in the Eastern ...
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John of Mirecourt (fl. c.1345)
The traditional view that John of Mirecourt was condemned because he was a radical sceptic has been brought into question by more extensive research on his writings. For ...
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John of Paris (c.1260–1306)
John of Paris was a prominent Dominican theologian at Paris at the end of thirteenth century. He began his career with polemical works in defense of Thomist positions. ...
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Marston, Roger (c.1235–c.1303)
Roger Marston, an English Franciscan philosopher–theologian, was a pupil of John Pecham and a fellow student with Matthew of Aquasparta. Following closely in the footsteps of his master, ...
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Tauler, John (c.1300–1361)
Tauler was a Dominican preacher and mystic, the author of seventy-nine vernacular sermons which presented the Neoplatonic speculative mysticism of his teacher Eckhart in more personal and concrete ...
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Neckham, Alexander (1157–1217)
Alexander Neckham is one of the leading thinkers in the English appropriation of the new science made available during the twelfth century. His best known writings, especially De ...
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Olivi, Peter John (1247/8–98)
Condemned repeatedly by religious authorities, Peter John Olivi is one of scholasticism’s most original and colourful figures. Although better known for his involvement in social and political debates ...
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Philip the Chancellor (1160/85–1236)
Philip occupies a pivotal place in the development of medieval philosophy. He is among the very first in the Latin West to have a fairly complete picture of ...
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Chatton, Walter (c.1290–1343)
Chatton was an English philosopher and theologian who developed a detailed critique of the work of William of Ockham, causing the latter to revise some of his earlier ...
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Durandus of St Pourçain (1275?–1334)
Although strongly Aristotelian in outlook, Durandus rejected certain classic points of Thomist doctrine such as the speculative ‘scientific’ and unique nature of theology, the theory of the active ...
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Gregory of Rimini (c.1300–58)
Gregory of Rimini was for a long time known primarily for his doctrine of predestination and for his notion of ‘the complexly signifiable’ in the semantics of propositions. ...
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Pecham, John (c.1230–92)
John Pecham, an English Franciscan, taught at Paris and Oxford, and died as Archbishop of Canterbury. His philosophical career represents a concentrated effort to defend the traditional views ...
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Ulrich of Strasbourg (c.1220/5–1277)
A Dominican theologian and philosopher and a student of Albert The Great, Ulrich was well known for a widely studied summa theologiae, De summo bono (On the ...