Robert Kilwardby c. 1215 – 1279

Robert Kilwardby was an English Dominican philosopher, archbishop of Canterbury from 1273 to 1278, and finally a cardinal of the Roman Church. After teaching the arts at Paris and theology at Oxford, he held the Dominican provincialate of England and shaped the order's philosophical formation in the Augustinian-Aristotelian tradition. As archbishop he issued the Oxford condemnations of 1277, in which a list of philosophical and theological theses associated with the new Thomistic Aristotelianism was prohibited from being taught at Oxford. His De Ortu Scientiarum and his commentaries on Aristotle's logical works are landmarks of thirteenth-century Latin scholarship.