Why we included some authors and not others
This site focuses on the Latin Thirteenth Century Scholasticism, so most of our authors fit that description.
Thirteenth-century authors included here: Albert the Great, Bartholomew the Englishman, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, Richard Rufus, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas.
We included a few Latin thinkers from before or after the Thirteenth Century in attempt to offer a sense of the continuity of tradition.
- Two earlier medieval authors who deeply influenced Scholasticism, Peter Abelard and the Venerable Bede
- Two fourteenth-century authors, Meister Eckhart and William of Ockham.
We made a modest attempt to include a few medieval authors from the Arabic and Islamic world, authors who deeply influenced Thirteenth Century Scholasticism:
- Alfarabi
- Algazel
- Averroes
- Avicenna
- Maimonides
Excerpts from the works of Hildegard of Bingen, Gertrude the Great, and Brigid of Sweden provide a sense of what women outside the Scholastic world accomplished.
We could not include Greek philosophers or Latin authors from the world of late antiquity. Missing but deeply influential are both Aristotle and Augustine, though you will find that our authors frequently cite them. Other influential Greek authors not included here are Pseudo-Dionysius, Pliny, Plotinus, and Proclus. Influential Latin authors whose absence will be obvious are St. Benedict, Boethius, Gregory the Great, and Isidore. To limited extent, we hope to make up for these omissions with links and in the list of works cited.