Nicholas of Amiens

Nicholas of Amiens (Nicholaus Ambianensis) (1147 – c.1200) was a French theologian, a pupil of Gilbert de la Porrée.

He is known for a single major work, the De arte catholicae fidei; it is modelled after Euclid's Elements.^[1] Some still attribute it to Alain of Lille, a question that has divided scholars since the nineteenth century.^[2]

References

• G. R. Evans (1983), Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century, Appendix, on the authorship issue
• Mechthild Dreyer (1993), Nikolaus von Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae: Ein Beispielwerk axiomatischer Methode

Notes

1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
2. Marie-Dominique Chenu, Nature, Man and Society in the Twelfth Century (1997), p. 45 and references.

External links

• List of works