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Who said Eriugena was "the most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period"?

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Bertrand Russell

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According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Eriugena was "the most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period". He was a polymath, fluent in Greek, Latin and Syriac, and is best known for his Periphyseon, a commentary on the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
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