Medieval · c. 1120–1180
Who influenced John of Salisbury?
Influences
Humanist churchman who mocked empty logic and wrote politics as prudence.
John of Salisbury was influenced by Peter Abelard. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was John of Salisbury?
John of Salisbury, who called himself "John the Little", was an English writer, philosopher, educator and diplomat who became Bishop of Chartres. The historian Hans Liebeschuetz counted him among the most notable figures of the 12th-century renaissance.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced John of Salisbury?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Peter Abelard 1079–1142
The line of teachers behind John of Salisbury
The longest documented line of influence ending at John of Salisbury runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from John of Salisbury
Indirect influences
- Through Peter Abelard: Aristotle
Contemporaries of John of Salisbury
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of John of Salisbury, with no direct line between them.
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Ibn Tufail c. 1105–1185
- Maimonides 1138–1204
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
- Peter Lombard c. 1096–1160
John of Salisbury by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 16
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 27 — #53 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about John of Salisbury
- Who influenced John of Salisbury?
- Peter Abelard.
- Who did John of Salisbury influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on John of Salisbury.
- When did John of Salisbury live?
- c. 1120–1180. The map files John of Salisbury under the medieval period.
- How rare is the John of Salisbury card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on John of Salisbury in 27 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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