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Scientists

Abraham Bar H.iyya (H.ayya)

Albertus Magnus

Alfonso X, El Sabio, King of Castile and León

Aristippus, Henry

Averroës, Abu ‘L-Walı ̄d Muh.ammad B. Ah.mad B.

Rushd

Byrhtferth

Cecco d’Ascoli

Eugenius of Palermo

Fulbert of Chartres

Harpestreng, Henrik

Ibn Zuhr, Abu ̄ Marwa ̄n ‘Abd Al-Ma ̄lik

John of Seville

Laufenberg, Heinrich

Levi Ben Gershom (Gersonides)

Llull, Ramón

Martianus Capella

Maslama de Madrid

Michael Scot

Oresme, Nicole

Pedro Alfonso, or Petrus Alfonsi

Philipupe de Thaün

Pietro Abano

Prosdocimus de Beldemandis

Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo

Trotula of Salerno

Vilanova, Arnau de

William of Conches

Travelers

Angelo Clareno

Benjamin of Tudela

Burchard of Mount Sion

Cão, Diogo

Columbus, Christopher

Daniel the Abbot

Dias, Bartolomeu

Egeria

Gama, Vasco da

Giovanni di Piano Carpini

Guzmán, Nuño de

Ibn Sa’ı ̄d, Abu ̄ ‘L-H.asan ‘Alı ̄ B. Mu ̄sa ̄ B. Muh.ammad

B. ‘Abd al-Malik B. Sa’ı ̄d

Martí, Ramón

Valera, Diego de

Notable Women

Angela da Foligno, Saint

Beatrijs van Nazareth

Birgitta, Saint

Blanche of Castile

Cartagena, Teresa de

Catherine of Siena, Saint

Christine de Pizan

Clare, Saint

Constance

Dhuoda

Ebner, Margaretha

Egeria

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Elisabeth von Schönau

Elizabeth of Hungary

Frau Ava

Gertrud von Helfta

Hadewijch

H.afs.a Bint Al-Hayy Ar-Rakuniyya

Héloïse

Herrad von Hohenburg

Hild

Hildegard von Bingen

Hrosvit of Gandersheim

Humility of Faenza

Isabeau of Bavaria

Jeanne d’Arc

Jeanne of Navarre

Joanna I of Naples

Judith, Empress

Julian of Norwich

Kempe, Margery

Langmann, Adelheid

Leodegundia

López de Córdoba, Leonor

Luitgard of Aywières

Margaret of Cortona, Saint

Margrethe I

Marguerite d’Oingt

Marguerite of Provence

Marguerite Porete

Marie de France

Marie d’Oignies

Matilda, Empress

Mechthild von Hackeborn

Mechthild von Magdeburg

Molina, María de

Padilla, María de

Qasmu ̄ na Bint Isma ̄’ı ̄l

Theodora

Trotula of Salerno

Walla ̄dah Bint Al-Mustafki

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