Thinkers of the Medieval Period
Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321
Literaturequotes
Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria
Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406
Economicsquotes
Ibn Khaldun was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
William of Ockham
1287 – 1347
Religionquotes
William of Ockham or Occam was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and theologian, who was born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the 14th century. He is widely known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, and also produced significant works on logic, physics and theology.
Dialogus, text translation and studies at British Academy, UK
Ippen
1239 – 1289
Religionquotes
Ippen Shōnin (一遍上人) 1234/9–1289 was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (hijiri) whose movement, the Ji-shū became one of the major currents of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.
In the Buddha’s teaching, unless you cast away body and life, there can be no realization of benefit.
Thomas Bradwardine
1300 – 1349
Religionquotes
Thomas Bradwardine was an English cleric, scholar, mathematician, physicist, courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. As a celebrated scholastic philosopher and doctor of theology, he is often called Doctor Profundus.
Henry Morley, English Writers. V.1, Pts. 1-2; 2, Volume 2, Issue 1
Nicole Oresme
1320 – 1382
Philosophyquotes
Nicole Oresme, also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology, astronomy, philosophy, and theology. He was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and one of the most original thinkers of 14th-century Europe.
I am of the opinion that the main and final cause why the prince pretends to the power of altering the coinage is the profit or gain which he can get from it.
Ramon Llull
1232 – 1316
Philosophyquotes
Ramon Llull, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully, was a Mallorcan Catholic philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, apologist and former knight. He invented a philosophical system known as the Art, conceived as a type of universal logic to prove the truth of Christian doctrine to interlocutors of all faiths and nationalities. The Art consists of a set of general principles and combinatorial operations.
Raymund Lull: First Missionary to the Muslims by Samuel M. Zwemer
Walter Hilton
1340 – 1396
Literaturequotes
Walter Hilton, Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic, whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales.
What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.
Words from November 2
"Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria"
Dante Alighieri
1265
"Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura;per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova."
Dante Alighieri
1265
"All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing."
Ibn Khaldun
1332
"Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers."
Ibn Khaldun
1332
"Dialogus, text translation and studies at British Academy, UK"
William of Ockham
1287
"William of Ockham profile at University of St Andrews, Scotland"
William of Ockham
1287