Giles of Lessines

Giles of Lessines OP (c. 1230 – c. 1304)[1] was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas.[2] He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus.[3] He was an early defender of Thomism.[4]

He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic theory, writing on usury[5] and market prices.[6]

  1. ^ "Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts". medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  2. ^ History of Medieval Philosophy 313
  3. ^ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  4. ^ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School
  5. ^ "Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time". Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  6. ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics