Schoolmen
.Certain theologians of the Middle Ages; so called because they lectured in the cloisters or cathedral schools founded by Charlemagne and his immediate successors. They followed the fathers, from whom they differed in reducing every subject to a system, and may be grouped under three periods—
First Period. Platonists (from ninth to twelfth century).
(1) Pierre Abélard (1079–1142).
(2) Flacius Albinus Alcuin (735–804).
(4) Anselm. Doctor Scholasticus. (1050–1117.)
(5) Berengaʹrius of Tours (1000–1088).
(7) John of Salisbury (1110–1180).
(8) Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury. (1005–1089.)
(9) Pierre Lombard. Master of the Sentences, sometimes called the founder of school divinity. (1100–1164.)
(10) John Roscelinus (eleventh century).
Second Period, or Golden Age of Scholasticism. Aristotelians (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries).
(1) Alain de Lille. Universal Doctor. (1114–1203.)
(2) Albertus Magnus, of Padua. (1193–1280.)
(3) Thomas Aquinas. The Angelic Doctor. (1224–1274.)
(7) John Duns Scotus. The Subtle Doctor. (1265–1308.)
Third Period. Nominalism Revived. (To the seventeenth century.)
(2) John Burman (1295–1360).
(7) Raymond Lully. The Illuminated Doctor. (1234–1315.)
(8) Francis Mairon, of Digne, in Provence.
(10) François Suarez, the last of the schoolmen. (1548–1617.)