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Period: The Medieval Period

This period covers the time from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance and the Reformation. The major historical events and intellectual movements of that time, which influenced the development of liberty, include the following:

  • the preservation and further development of ancient Greek and Roman science and philosophy in the Arab speaking world
  • the flowering of Christian theology and philosophy
  • the emergence of more modern formss of literature in the venacular language by writers such as Chaucer and Dante
  • the creation of one of the founding documents of the Anglo-American legal tradition, Magna Carta

21 People in this Group:

sort name   name ↑ birth   death  
Al Ghazali Al Ghazali 1058 1111
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 1126 1198
Beowulf Beowulf 800 AD ?
Boethius Boethius 470 AD 524 AD
Njal B Burnt Njal ? —
Dante Dante Alighieri 1265 1321
Petrarch Francesco Petrarch 1304 1374
Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer 1340 1400
Wyclife John Wyclife 1330 1384
Kalidasa Kalidasa 500 AD 500 AD
Misc (Magna Carta) Misc (Magna Carta) ? —
Misc (Roman Chant) Misc (Roman Chant) ? —
Mohammed Mohammed 570 AD 632 AD
Maimonides Moses Maimonides 1135 1204
Rhazes Rhazes 865 AD 923 AD
Anselm Saint Anselm 1033 1109
Bede Saint Bede 672 AD 735 AD
Benedict St. Saint Benedict 480 AD 547 AD
Assisi F Saint Francis of Assisi 1181 1226
Sturlason S Snorre Sturlason 1179 1241
Aquinas T St. Thomas Aquinas 1225 1274