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Chapter XIII. The State of Learning

§ 142. Chronological List of the Principal Ecclesiastical Writers from the Sixth to the Twelfth Century

Page 141 of 181

I. Greek Authors.

St. Maximus Confessor

c. 580-662839

St. John of Damascus

c. 676-754840

Photius

c. 805-891841

Simeon Metaphrastes

10th century.

Oecumenius

10th century.

Theophylact

11th century.

Michael Psellus

c. 1020-c. 1106

Euthymius Zigabenus

12th century.

Eustathius of Thessalonica

12th century

Nicetas Acominatos

d. c. 1126

I. Latin Authors.

Cassiodorus

c. 477-c. 580

St. Gregory of Tours

538-594

St. Gregory the Great

c. 540-604842

St. Isidore of Seville

c. 560-636

The Venerable Bede (Baeda)

674-735843

Paulus Diaconus (Paul Warnefrid)

c. 725-800

St. Paulinus of Aquileia

c. 726-804

Alcuin

735-804844

Liudger

c. 744-809

Theodulph of Orleans

-821

Eigil

-822

Amalarius

-837

Claudius of Turin

-839845

Agobard of Lyons

779-840846

Einhard (Eginhard)

c. 770-840

Smaragdus

-c. 840

Jonas of Orleans

-844

Rabanus Maurus

c. 776-856847

Haymo

c. 778-853

Walafrid Strabo

c. 809-849

Florus of Lyons

-c. 860

Servatus Lupus

805-862

Druthmar

c. 860

St. Paschasius Radbertus

c. 790-865848

Ratramnus

-c. 868849

Hincmar of Rheims

c. 806-882850

Johannes Scotus Erigena

c. 815-877851

Anastasius

-886

Ratherius of Verona

c. 890-974

Pope Sylvester II. (Gerbert)

-1003852

Fulbert of Chartres

c. 950-1029

Peter Damiani

1007-1072

Bere

Notes

  1. 839

    See §§ 109-112, pp. 495, 496, 498.

  2. 840

    See §§ 94, 100-102, pp. 405 sq., 413, 450, 456.

  3. 841

    See §§ 67, 70, 107 and 108, pp. 304, 312 sqq., 476 sqq.

  4. 842

    See §§ 10, p. 30 sqq., and 50, 52, pp. 211 sqq.

  5. 843

    See §§ 13, p. 40 sq.

  6. 844

    See §§ 116, p. 511 sqq.

  7. 845

    See § 105, p. 472 sqq.

  8. 846

    See § 105, p. 471 sq.

  9. 847

    See § 96, p. 426, and 120, p. 525 sq.

  10. 848

    See § 127, p. 549.

  11. 849

    · See § 126, p. 546 sqq.

  12. 850

    See § 123, p. 529 sqq.

  13. 851

    · See § 121, p. 528 sqq.

  14. 852

    §§ 64 and 65, pp. 292 and 295.

Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 4: Mediaeval Christianity, AD 590–1073 (1885). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.