Giles of Lessines explained

Giles of Lessines OP (–)^[1] was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas.^[2] He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus.^[3] He was an early defender of Thomism.^[4]

He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic theory, writing on usury^[5] and market prices.^[6]

Works

Among the works authored by Giles are:

• Commentarium in libros I et II Sententiarum
• De concordia temporum
• De essentia, motu et significatione cometarum
• De geometria
• Epistula Alberto Magno missa
• Summa de temporibus
• De unitate formae
• De usuris
• Quaestiones theologicae

Notes

1. Web site: Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts . 2024-10-04 . medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
2. http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp313.htm History of Medieval Philosophy 313
3. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-great/ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
4. http://www.domcentral.org/trad/domwork/domwork09.htm Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

5. Web site: Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time . 2007-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071120004948/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number2/ssr05_02_r02.html . 2007-11-20 . dead .
6. http://www.minaret.org/austrian.htm Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics