List of Medieval European scholars

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.

A

 * 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 c. 1010)
 * 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)

B

 * Bartholomaeus Arnoldi von Usingen
 * Bartholomew of Bologna
 * Bartolus de Saxoferrato
 * Bede, (672/673–735)
 * Benedict Biscop, (c. 628–690)
 * Benedict of Nursia
 * Bernard of Chartres
 * Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090–1153)
 * Bernard Silvestris
 * Bero Magni de Ludosia
 * Berthold of Moosburg
 * Boetius of Dacia
 * St Boisil, (d 664)
 * Bonaventure
 * Burgundio of Pisa
 * Jean Buridan, (died c. 1359)
 * Byrhtferth of Ramsey, (fl. c. 986 – c. 1016)

C

 * Cesare Cremonini, (1550–1631); alias Caesar Cremoninus
 * St Chad of Mercia, (died 672)
 * Clarembald of Arras
 * St Colman of Lindisfarne, (605–675)
 * St Cummian Fada, (591–661/2)
 * Cuthbert Tunstall

D

 * Daniel of Morley
 * Dante Alighieri, (1265–1321)
 * David Cranston
 * David of Dinant
 * Denys the Carthusian
 * Domingo Bañez
 * Dudo of Saint-Quentin
 * (John) Duns Scotus, (c. 1266–1308)
 * Saint Dunod, (mid 6th–early 7th c)
 * Saint Dunstan, (908–988)
 * Durand of St Pourçain

E

 * St Eadberht of Lindisfarne, (died 698)
 * Ecgbert of York, (or Egbert, died 766)
 * Meister Eckhart
 * Eddius Stephanus, (Stephen of Ripon)
 * Edmund of Abingdon
 * Elias Burneti of Bergerac
 * Everard of Ypres

F

 * Faritius (or Faricius) (died 1117)
 * Fernando de Córdoba (1425–1486)
 * Finan of Lindisfarne, (died 611)
 * Florence of Worcester (died 1118)
 * Francis of Marchia
 * Francis of Meyronnes
 * Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
 * Fulbert of Chartres (952–1028)

G

 * Gabriel Biel
 * Gaetano of Thiene
 * Garlandus Compotista
 * Gaunilo(n) of Montmoutiers
 * Geoffrey Gaimar
 * Geoffrey of Monmouth, (c. 1095 – c. 1155)
 * Gerard of Abbeville
 * Gerard of Cremona
 * Gerbert of Aurillac, (Pope Sylvester II),(946–1003)
 * Gerho of Reichersberg
 * Gersonides, (1288–1344)
 * Gilbert of Poitiers
 * Gildas, (6th c)
 * Giles of Rome
 * Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
 * Girolamo Savonarola
 * Gonsalvo of Spain
 * Godfrey of Fontaines
 * Goscelin of Canterbury or St Bertin, (c. 1040 – c. 1106)
 * Pope Gregory I
 * Gregory of Rimini
 * Guerric of Saint-Quentin
 * Guido Terrena

H

 * Hadrian of Canterbury (see Adrian)
 * Heinrich Totting von Oytha
 * Henry Aristippus
 * Henry Bate
 * Henry of Ghent
 * Henry of Harclay
 * Henry of Huntingdon, (1080–1160)
 * Henry of Langenstein
 * Hermann of Carinthia
 * Hermann of Reichenau, (1013–1054)
 * Hervaeus Natalis
 * Heymeric of Camp
 * Honorius Augustodunensis/*Honoré d'Autun (1080–1151)
 * Hrabanus: Rabanus
 * Hugh of St. Cher
 * Hugh of St. Victor

I

 * Isidore of Seville, (c. 560–636)
 * Ivo of Chartres

J

 * 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)

L

 * Luis de Molina
 * Lupus Servatus (also known as Servatus Lupus) (c. 805–c. 862)

M

 * Máeldub (also Maildubh, Maildulf or Meldun), (died c. 675)
 * Manegold of Lautenbach
 * Marianus Scotus, (1028–1082/3)
 * Marsilius of Inghen
 * Marsilius of Padua
 * Martin of Dacia
 * Matthew of Aquasparta
 * Matthew Paris, (1200–1259)
 * Mechthild of Magdeburg (c. 1207–c. 1282/1294)
 * Melchior Cano
 * Michael of Massa
 * Michael Servetus (1509 or 1511 to 1553)
 * St Minnborinus of Cologne, (fl 974–986)

N

 * Nennius, (9th c)
 * Nicholas of Amiens
 * Nicholas of Autrecourt
 * Nicholas of Cusa
 * Nicole Oresme

O

 * Odo of Châteauroux
 * Orderic Vitalis, (1075–1142)
 * St Oswald of Worcester or York, (925–992)
 * Otric

P

 * Paul of Pergula
 * Paul of Venice
 * Peter Abelard, (1079–1142)
 * Peter Alfonsi
 * Peter Auriol
 * Peter of Auvergne
 * Peter le Bar
 * Peter of Candia
 * Peter of Capua the Elder
 * Peter Ceffons
 * Peter of Corbeil
 * Peter Damian
 * Peter Helias
 * Peter Lombard
 * Peter Olivi
 * Peter of Pisa
 * Peter of Poitiers (Chancellor)
 * Peter de Rivo
 * Peter of Spain (usually identified with Pope John XXI)
 * Peter the Venerable
 * Pierre d'Ailly
 * Pierre de Maricourt
 * Philip the Chancellor
 * Plato of Tivoli
 * Prévostin of Cremona

R

 * 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

S

 * Saxo Grammaticus, (c. 1150 – c. 1220)
 * Servatus Lupus (see Lupus Servatus)
 * Siger of Brabant, (1240–1284)
 * Simon of Faversham
 * Simon of Tournai
 * Snorri Sturluson, (1179–1241)
 * Stephen Langton, (c. 1150–1228)
 * Stephen of Ripon, (died 709)
 * Francisco Suárez, (1548–1617)
 * Svend Aggesen, (born c. 1145)
 * Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129)
 * Symphorien Champier, (1471–1539)

T

 * 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)

U

 * Ulrich of Strassburg
 * Urso of Salerno

V

 * Vital du Four
 * St Vitalian, (600–672)
 * Vitello, (1230–1314)

W

 * Walter Burley
 * Walter Chatton
 * Walter of Château-Thierry
 * Walter of Mortagne
 * Walter of Oxford, (died 1151)
 * Warner of Rouen
 * Wilfrid, (c. 633–709/710)
 * William of Alnwick
 * William of Auvergne
 * William of Auxerre
 * William de Brailes, (active 1230–1260)
 * William of Champeaux
 * William of Conches
 * William of Durham
 * William of Falagar
 * William Heytesbury
 * William of Jumieges
 * William of Lucca
 * William of Malmesbury, (1080–1143)
 * William de la Mare
 * William of Moerbeke
 * William of Ockham, (c. 1285–1349)
 * William of Poitiers, (1020–1090)
 * William of Saint Albans, (fl. 1170)
 * William of Saint-Amour
 * William of Sherwood
 * William of Ware
 * Witelo
 * William of Poitiers