Medieval Latin-language poets

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)

French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)

Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

8th century Benedictine monk, scribe and historian

eleventh-century Benedictine monk

archbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)

Italian saint-bishop, poet and hymnwriter (c. 530-c. 600/609)

Italian Franciscan mystic

French theologian and poet

English writer and poet (c.1330–1408)

Benedictine monk and musician

Italian religious, poet and writer

Carolingian priest (ca. 808–849)

Bishop and saint; hymnwriter

Archbishop of Vienne

Aldhelm (, ; 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as his early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. After his death he was venerated as a saint, his feast day being the day of his death, 25 May.

Italian Renaissance humanist

German theologian

Patriarch of Aquileia and saint

medieval priest and chronicler

French bishop and theologian

Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu ( – 18 February 814) was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law. He is venerated as a pre-Congregation saint and is still honored on the day of his death, 18 February.

Irish teacher, Latin grammarian and scriptural commentator

12th-century French writer and theologian

Medieval composer

scholar and abbot of Cirencester

French poet and diplomat

French philosopher (ca1085-ca1160)

11th-century Norman historian

French poet

English philologist

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French writer and theologian

11th-century bishop of Rennes

Breton bishop and writer

German writer

French chronicler and poet

Italian poet and historian

9th-century poet

Franciscan friar and chronicler

British poet and writer

Latin lyric poet

French bishop

Tatwine ( – 30 July 734) was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734. Prior to becoming archbishop, he was a monk and abbot of a Benedictine monastery. Besides his ecclesiastical career, Tatwine was a writer, and riddles he composed survive. Another work he composed was on the grammar of the Latin language, which was aimed at advanced students of that language. He was subsequently considered a saint.

Scholar, theologian, and poet

Irish teacher, poet, Bishop of Fiesole and saint

English monk, satirist and poet

poet

German poet and writer (c. 1230-1313)

Haito (or Hatto or Heito) (764 – 17 March 836) was the bishop of Basel from 802 and simultaneously abbot of Reichenau Abbey from 806.

Moduin, Modoin, or Mautwin (, , c.770–840/3) was a Frankish churchman and Latin poet of the Carolingian Renaissance. He was a close friend of Theodulf of Orléans, a contemporary and courtier of the emperors Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, and a member of the Palatine Academy. In signing his own poems he used the pen name Naso in reference to the cognomen of Ovid. From 815 (or earlier) until his death he was the Bishop of Autun.

French poet

Occitan troubadour

6th-century writer and the bishop of Iunca

British writer