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title: IV to XIV Centuries
description: Events and thinkers of the history of Western philosophy from the
  6th to 14th century
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<table border="0" style="background-image: url(../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglos_IV_a_XIV/_files/edadmedia.jpg.webp); height: 480px;" width="600"><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">&#160;Oh! </td></tr><a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_4.png.webp"></a><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">&#160;<em> philosophers</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">&#160;<em> historical events</em></td><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">&#160;<em> VI</em></td> <a href="../333449#Pseudo-Dionisio_Areopagita"><em>Pseudo Dionysus</em></a><p></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="../333449">Boethius (840-524)</a>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><em>Cassiodorus (485-580)</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Gregory the Great (540-604)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Ostrogod Kingdom of Theodoric -Ravenna, Italy-</em></td></p>&#10;<p><i></i>529 Justinian Code&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><em>Conquest of the Bizantidos in Italy</em></p>&#10;<p><em>555-580<i></i></em>Lombards in Italy&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Conversion of Recaredo -Spain-&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>VII</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Maximus the Confessor (580-662)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="https://tags.idoneos.com/Isidoro_de_Sevilla">Isidoro de Sevilla (560-636</a>)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>622 La Hegira</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>632 Muhammad</em></p>&#10;<p>Arab<i></i>invasion of North Africa&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>VIII<i></i></em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">John Damascene (675-749)&#10;<i></i><p></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Beda the Venerable (672-735)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding-left: 30px;"><em>711 Arabs invade Spain</em>&#10;<em>751 Pipino, King of the Franks</em>&#10;<i></i>785 Papal States&#10;</td></tr><em><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">IX<em><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><a href="../333449#Juan_Escoto_Eri%C3%BAgena">Eriugena Scout (810-877)<i></i><p></p>&#10;<p>York<i></i>Alcuine (735-804)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Raban Mauro (776-856)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding-left: 30px;"><i></i><a href="https://www.idoneos.com/concepts?cx=partner-pub-6617584947289036:pvxlkp-sgg2&cof=forid:11&q=carlomagno&sa=buscar#921">800 Charlemagne Emperor</a>&#10;</td></em></td></tr></em><em><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">X<em><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><a href="../333585">Al-Farabi (872-950)<i></i></a><p></p>&#10;<p>-<i></i>Oh! <a href="../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglos_IV_a_XIV/_files/filosofosarabes.jpg.webp"></a>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>910 Cluny</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>962 Otto the Great</em></p>&#10;<p>-</p><div markdown="1" class="orangebox" style="text-align: center;">Oh! <a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp"></a><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="../333449">Pro</a> <a href="../333449">fund</a> <a href="../333449">raise</a> <a href="../333449">medieval Sofia<a href="../333449">edge</a> (6th to 10th centuries)</a></p>&#10;<p></p></div>&#10;</td></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>XI</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Al-Biruni (973-1048)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/367055"><em>Avicenna (980-1037)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em><a href="../333578">Anselm by Canterbury (1033-1109)</a></em></p>&#10;<p><em>Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1054<em>East</em>Schism</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1075 Wrestling of the Investitures</em></p>&#10;<p>-</p><div markdown="1" class="orangebox">Oh! <a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp"></a><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="../333585">Deepening Jewish and Arab philosophy in the Middle Ages</a>&#10;</p></div>&#10;</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>XII</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Peter Abelardo (1079-1142)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>Abentofail (1105-1185)</em></p>&#10;<p><em>Peter Lombard (1100-1160)</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/367051"><em>Averroes (1126-1198)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://religionjudia.idoneos.com/maimonides"><em>Maimonides (1138-1204)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1270 Crusades</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1152-1190 Frederick I Barbarossa</em></p>&#10;<p><em>1189-1190 Richard Lionheart</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="https://www.idoneos.com/concepts/herejia">Heresies</a>: <a href="https://religion.idoneos.com/minorias_religiosas_perseguidas/cataros">Cataros</a>, <a href="https://religion.idoneos.com/minorias_religiosas_perseguidas/albigenses">Albigenses</a>, Waldenses&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>XIII</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Albert the Great (1193-1206)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em><i></i></em>S. of Brabant (1281)<i></i></p>&#10;<p><a href="../333780#La_escuela_de_Oxford"><em>Roger Bacon (1210-1292)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em>Alexander of Hales (1185-1245)</em></p>&#10;<p><em>Buenaventura da Fidanza (1221-1274)</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="../333798"><em>Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)</em></a></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1215 Magna Carta, England</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1226-1270 Predominance of France</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i>1234 Alfonso X, the Wise&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>XIV</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Duns Scoto (1308)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>Marsillo de Padua (1443)</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="../333907"><em>William of Ockham (1285-1349)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://religion.idoneos.com/perspectiva_metafisica/teologia_negativa"><em>Eckhart (1260-1327)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em>Ruysbroeck (1381)</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1309-1377 Papacy in Avigon</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1339-1453 The Hundred Years War</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://peste.idoneos.com/"><em>1348 Great Plague</em></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="https://www.idoneos.com/concepts?cx=partner-pub-6617584947289036:pvxlkp-sgg2&cof=forid:11&q=cisma+de+occidente&sa=buscar#1254">1378-1417 West Schism</a>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr></em></table>
