Medieval Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

This is the Medieval Philosophy entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by John Marenbon, a leading historian of medieval philosophy, and published and maintained by the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University. Its authority comes from the Encyclopedia's editorial model, a named specialist author writing a signed entry that is reviewed on publication and then kept current through dated revisions, distinguishing it from an anonymous or crowd-edited reference. It surveys the field's major figures, schools and debates from late antiquity through the fourteenth century in a single continuously updated overview. Its limit is that a survey entry of this scope necessarily summarizes rather than argues any one philosopher's position in depth, so a claim about a specific medieval philosopher's own argument is best checked against that philosopher's primary text or a focused monograph.