List of Medieval European scholars explained
This is a list of philosophers and other scholars, historians and preachers – very much overlapping activities – working in the Christian tradition in Western Europe during the medieval period, including the early Middle Ages. See also scholasticism.
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- Abbo of Fleury (or Abbon), (945–1004)
- Abélard, Pierre, (1079–1142)
- Abner of Burgos, (1270–1348)
- St Acca of Hexham, (660–740)
- Adam of Bremen
- Adam de Buckfield
- Adam Parvipontanus
- Adam de Wodeham
- Adam Pulchrae Mulieris/Adam de Puteorumvilla
- Adelard of Bath
- Adomnan of Iona, (c. 624–704)
- Adrian of Canterbury, (or Hadrian, born before 637, died 710)
- Aelfheah, (died 1012)
- Ailred of Rievaulx
- Ælfric of Eynsham (the Grammarian), (died)
- Æthelbert of York, (sometimes Æthelberht, Albert, Ælberht, Aethelberht, or Ælbert; died 780)
- Aethelwulf, (poet)
- Alain, bishop of Auxerre
- Alain de Lille / Alanus de Insulis / Montepessulano, (c. 1128–1202)
- Albert of Saxony
- Albric of London
- Alberich of Reims
- Albert of Saxony, (1316–1390)
- Albertus Magnus
- Alcuin of York, (c. 735–804)
- King Aldfrith of Northumbria, (died 705)
- Aldhelm of Malmesbury, (c. 639–709)
- Alexander of Hales, (died 1245)
- Alexander Nequam/Neckam/of St Alban's
- Alfred of Sareshel/Alfredus Anglicus
- Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
- Amalric of Bena/Bène, (died c. 1204–1207)
- Aimoin, (born c. 965—died after 1008)
- St Anno of Cologne, (c 1010–1075)
- Anselm of Laon, (died 1117)
- Anselm of Canterbury, (1034–1109)
- Ardengus
- Arnaldus de Villa Nova
- Arnold Fitz Thedmar, (1201–1274/5)
- Arnulf of Lisieux, (1104/9–1184)
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- James the Deacon, (died after 671)
- James of Metz
- James of Venice
- James of Viterbo
- Jacques de Vitry
- (St) Jan Kanty/John Cantius, (1390–1473)
- Jan Standonck
- Jean Buridan, (c. 1295–1363)
- Jean de la Rochelle
- Jerome of Prague
- Joachim of Flora
- Jocelin, Bishop of Soissons
- Jodocus Trutfetter
- Johann Eck
- Johann von Goch
- Johann Ruchrat von Wesel
- John Baconthorpe
- John Blund
- John Cantius
- John Capreolus
- John Dumbleton
- John Fisher
- John of Fordun, (before 1360 – c. 1380)
- John Gerson, (1363–1429)
- John Halgren of Abbeville
- John of Jandun
- John Mair
- John of Mirecourt
- John Pagus
- John of Paris
- John Peckham
- John Poinsot
- John Punch
- John of Reading
- John of Salisbury, (c. 1115–1180)
- John of Wallingford,(fl. 1195–1215)
- Johannes Scotus Eriugena
- John of Seville
- John of Worcester, (died c. 1140)
- John Wyclif, (born 1324)
- Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
- Juan de Mariana
- Julian of Toledo, (642–690)
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- Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (also Hrabanus or Rhabanus), (780–856)
- Radbertus
- Radulphus Brito
- Radulphus de Longo Campo
- Ralph of Beauvais
- Ralph de Diceto, (c. 1120 – c. 1202)
- Ralph Strode
- Ramon Lull
- Raoul Ardens
- Ratramnus
- Raymond Féraud
- Raymond Gaufredi
- Reginald of Durham, (died c. 1190)
- Reginald Pecock
- Remigius of Auxerre (c. 841–908)
- Richard Brinkley
- Richard of Campsall
- Richard of Devizes, (fl late 12th c)
- Richard l'Evêque
- Richard Fishacre
- Richard Ferrybridge
- Richard Fitzralph
- Richard de Fournival
- Richard Kilvington
- Richard of Middleton
- Richard Rufus of Cornwall
- Richard of Saint-Laurent
- Richard of St. Victor, (died 1173)
- Richard Swineshead
- Robert Blund
- Robert of Courson
- Robert of Gloucester, (fl.1260–1300)
- Robert Grosseteste, (c. 1175–1253)
- Robert Holcot
- Robert Kilwardby, (died 1279)
- Robert of Melun
- Robert Pullus
- Robert de Sorbon, (1201–1274)
- Robert of Torigni, (1106–1186)
- Robertus Anglicus
- Roger Bacon, (1214–1294)
- Roger Marston
- Roger of Hereford, (active c. 1178 – 1198)
- Roger of Wendover, (died 6 May 1236)
- Roland of Cremona
- Roscelin of Compiègne
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- Theodore of Tarsus (or Canterbury), (602–690)
- Theodoric of Freiberg (c.1250 – c.1311)
- Theodulf of Orléans, (c. 750/60–821)
- Thierry of Chartres/Theodoricus Carnotensis
- Thietmar of Merseburg, (975–1018)
- Thomas Aquinas, (1225–1274)
- Thomas Becket, (1118–1170)
- Thomas Bradwardine, (c. 1290–1349)
- Thomas of Chobham
- Thomas of Erfurt
- Thomas Gallus
- Thomas à Kempis, (1380–1471)
- Thomas Netter of Walden
- Thomas of Sutton
- Thomas Wykes of Osney, (1222–1292)
- Thomas Wilton
- Tilmo, (fl 690)
- St Tysilio or Sulio, (died 640)
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