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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Syrian author

William of Moerbeke

Belgian archbishop

Ibn Gabirol

Jewish poet and philosopher

Ramon Llull

Catalan mystic

William De La Mare

English philosopher

Isaac ben Solomon Israeli

Jewish physician and philosopher

George Gemistus Plethon

Byzantine philosopher

John Scotus Erigena

Irish philosopher

Gennadios II Scholarios

patriarch of Constantinople

St. Maximus the Confessor

Byzantine theologian

John Of Scythopolis

Byzantine theologian

Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Roman scholar

Arius

Christian priest