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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A

  • Abbo of Fleury (or Abbon), (945–1004)
  • Abélard, Pierre, (1079–1142)
  • Abner of Burgos, (1270–1348)
  • 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)
  • Albric of London
  • Alberich of Reims, (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1085 – 1141)
  • Albert of Saxony, (1316–1390)
  • Albertus Magnus, (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1200–1280)
  • 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
  • Amalric of Bena/Bène, (died c. 1204–1207)
  • Aimoin, (born c. 965—died after 1008)
  • 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 (1465–1532)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chad of Mercia, (died 672)
  • Clarembald of Arras
  • Colman of Lindisfarne, (605–675)
  • 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

  • Eadberht of Lindisfarne, (died 698)
  • Ecgbert of York, (or Egbert, died 766)
  • Meister Eckhart
  • Eddius Stephanus, (Stephen of Ripon)
  • Edmund of Abingdon
  • Elias Bruneti 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 (c. 1040–1115)

J

  • James the Deacon, (died after 671)
  • James of Metz
  • James of Venice
  • James of Viterbo
  • Jacques de Vitry
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • Paschasius 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
  • 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)
  • Tysilio or Sulio, (died 640)

U

  • Ulrich of Strassburg
  • Urso of Salerno

V

  • Vital du Four
  • 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