[New Entry by Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman on October 28, 2025.]
Alberic of Paris, also known as Alberic de Monte, was, according to his contemporaries, one of the most prominent philosophers in Paris in the twelfth century, a period in which the Latin-speaking West saw a marked revitalization of philosophical and scientific learning, and in which Paris rose to become its leading educational center. Alberic was the main rival to Peter Abelard (1079 – 1142) and, in the words of one of his pupils, “a most fierce opponent of the nominalist school” – that is, of Abelard and his followers (John of…

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