Augustine of Hippo -- Ambrose, Jerome, and Gregory the Great -- Boethius and the COnsolation of philosophy -- Isidore of seville and the Etymologies -- The venerable bede -- Alcuin, charlemagne, and Alfred the Great -- Avicenna and the golden age of Islam -- Alhacen and the scientific method -- Averroes and Aristotelian philosophy -- Maimonides and Jewish law -- Reshi and biblical interpretation -- Saladin and the defeat of the crusaders -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- Abelard and Heloise -- Peter Lombard and the sentences -- Thomas Aquinas -- William of Ockham and John Duns Scotus -- Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri -- Francesco Petrarch -- Lorenzo de'Medici -- Christine de Pisan -- Sir Thomas Malory and Le morte Darthur -- WIlliam Caxton and the Birth of printing.
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