Giles of Rome was probably born at Rome around 1243; no exact date is recorded for his birth, and the estimate is based on his likely ages at various stages of his career. He entered the Augustinian Hermits shortly before his fifteenth birthday at the...

(Aegidius Colonna; ca. 1243–1316). One of the most outstanding students of Thomas Aquinas, Giles was born at Rome, perhaps of the Colonna family. Contrary to his family’s wishes, Giles embraced the religious life ca. 1258 at the convent of...

c. 1243-1316 Italian scholar who supported the doctrine of substance put forth by Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274). An Augustinian hermit also known as Aegidus Romanus and Doctor Fundatissimus ("Best-Grounded Teacher"), Giles may have...

Giles of Rome(C. 1247–1316) Giles of Rome, the scholastic philosopher whose real name was Aegidius Colonna Romanus, was born in Rome. Giles entered the Augustinian order of hermits in 1265 and subsequently studied at the University of Paris,...

Giles of Rome (Latin Ægidius Romanus, or in Italian Egidio Colonna) (c. 1243 – 22 December1316, at Avignon), was an archbishop of Bourges who was famed for his logician commentary on the Organon by Aristotle. Giles was styled Doctor Fundatissimus...

ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING IF TROUBLESOME DEBATES within medieval philosophy is the paradoxical question of whether St. Thomas Aquinas, arguably the most influential theologian the medieval Catholic Church produced, defends an account of moral responsibility that is consistent with the Christian faith....

Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275 - c. 1525. By Charles E Briggs. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 207 pp. $69.95 cloth. Giles of...