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Alan of Lille is a philosopher, theologian and poet of the twelfth century. He is the author of a twofold work: the transposition in poetical form of the major themes of Platonism on the one hand and treatises of theology that include many aspects of the logic and ontology of Gilbert of Poitiers on the other. He was the last representative of the first age of medieval speculation based on Boethius and on the logica vetus, which preceded the rediscovery of Aristotle’s physics, metaphysics, and psychology, and the discovery of Arabic philosophy.
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Erismann, C. (2011). Alan of Lille. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_16
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