Medieval · c. 1096–1160
Who influenced Peter Lombard?
Influences and legacy
His Sentences became the textbook every medieval theologian had to lecture on.
Peter Lombard was influenced by Anselm of Canterbury, and went on to influence Thomas Aquinas. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Peter Lombard?
Peter Lombard was an Italian scholastic theologian who became Bishop of Paris. His Sentences became the standard textbook of theology throughout the Middle Ages.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Peter Lombard?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Anselm of Canterbury 1033–1109
Who did Peter Lombard influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Peter Lombard.
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
The line of teachers behind Peter Lombard
The longest documented line of influence ending at Peter Lombard runs 12 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Peter Lombard
Indirect influences
- Through Anselm of Canterbury: Augustine of Hippo
The second generation
- Through Thomas Aquinas: Duns Scotus, René Descartes
Contemporaries of Peter Lombard
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Peter Lombard, with no direct line between them.
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
- Ibn Tufail c. 1105–1185
- Avempace c. 1085–1138
- Peter Abelard 1079–1142
- John of Salisbury c. 1120–1180
Peter Lombard by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 25
- Thinkers downstream
- 137
- Wikipedia languages
- 40 — #47 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Peter Lombard
- Who influenced Peter Lombard?
- Anselm of Canterbury.
- Who did Peter Lombard influence?
- Thomas Aquinas.
- When did Peter Lombard live?
- c. 1096–1160. The map files Peter Lombard under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Peter Lombard card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Peter Lombard in 40 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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