Primary Sources

Works by John of Salisbury

Other Primary Sources

• Augustine, Against the Academicians, P. King (ed.), Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.
• Cicero, De officiis, W. Miller (ed.), Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1913.
• –––, De natura deorum and Academica, H. Rackham (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.
• Eadmer, [History], Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England, G. Bosanquet (trans.), London: The Cresset Press, 1964. (Scholar)
• –––, The Life of Saint Anselm (Vita Anselmi), R.W. Southern (ed. and trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Secondary Literature

• Bloch, D., 2012, John of Salisbury on Aristotelian Science, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
• Blumenroth, I., 2021, Das Alexanderische Schisma in Briefen und Ideenwelt des Arnulf von Lisieux und Johannes von Salisbury, Cologne: Bohlau Verlag. (Scholar)
• Bollermann, K. and C.J. Nederman, 2014, “Standing in Abelard’s Shadow: Gilbert of Poitiers, the 1148 Council of Rheims, and the Politics of Ideas”, in Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, K. Bollermann, T.M. Izbicki, and C.J. Nederman (eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 13–36. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “John of Salisbury and Thomas Becket”, in Grellard and Lachaud 2015: 63–104. (Scholar)
• Denery, D., II, 2016, “John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric”, in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, v. 1, Rita Copeland (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 377–390. (Scholar)
• Dutton, P.E., 1983, “Illustre Civitatis et Popoli Exemplum: Plato’s Timaeus and the Transmission from Calcidius to the End of the Twelfth Century of a Tripartite Scheme of Society”, Mediaeval Studies, 45: 79–119. (Scholar)
• Forhan, K.L, 1985, “A Twelfth-Century ‘Bureaucrat’ and the Life of the Mind: The Political Thought of John of Salisbury”, Proceedings of the PMR Conference, 10: 65–74. (Scholar)
• Grellard, C., 2013, Jean de Salisbury et le renaissance médiévale du scepticisme, Paris: Les Belles Lettres. (Scholar)
• Grellard, C. and F. Lachaud (eds.), 2015, A Companion to John of Salisbury, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, Jean de Salisbury, nouvelles lectures, nouveaux enjeux, Florence, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo. (Scholar)
• Hermand-Schebat, L., 2015, “John of Salisbury and Classical Antiquity”, in Grellard and Lachaud 2015: 180–214. (Scholar)
• Hosler, J.D., 2013, John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Liebeschütz, H., 1950, Mediaeval Humanism in the Life and Writings of John of Salisbury, London: The Warburg Institute. (Scholar)
• Martin, J., 1977, “John of Salisbury’s Manuscripts of Frontinus and of Gellius”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 40: 1–26. (Scholar)
• –––, 1979, “Uses of Tradition: Gellius, Petronius, and John of Salisbury”, Viator, 10: 57–76. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984, “John of Salisbury as Classical Scholar”, in Wilks 1984b: 179–201. (Scholar)
• Nederman, C.J., 1988, “A Duty to Kill: John of Salisbury’s Theory of Tyrannicide”, Review of Politics, 50: 365–389. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, Medieval Aristotelianism and its Limits, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Variorum/Ashgate. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, John of Salisbury, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Civil Religion—Metaphysical, Not Political: Nature, Faith, and Communal Order in European Thought, c.1150–c.1550”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 74: 1–22. (Scholar)
• Nederman, C.J. and K. Bollermann, 2011, “‘The Extravagance of the Senses’: Epicureanism, Priestly Tyranny, and the Becket Problem in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3^rd series, 8: 1–25. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, Thomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait, Maweh, NJ: Paulist Press. (Scholar)
• Nederman, C.J. and J. Brückmann, 1983, “Aristotelianism in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 21: 203–29. (Scholar)
• Nederman, C.J. and C. Campbell, 1991, “Priests, Kings, and Tyrants: Spiritual and Temporal Power in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus”, Speculum, 66: 572–90. (Scholar)
• O’Daly, I., 2018, John of Salisbury and the Medieval Roman Renaissance, Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Scholar)
• Olsen, G.W., 1998, “John of Salisbury’s Humanism”, in Gli Umansimi Medievali, C. Leonardi (ed.), Florence: SISMEL, pp. 447–468. (Scholar)
• Pinzano, Roberto, 2018, “John Salisbury on Universals” in The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury, Studies in Intellectual History 282, Leiden: Brill, pp. 271–298. (Scholar)
• Poole, R.L., 1932, Illustrations in the History of Medieval Thought and Learning, New York: Mcmillan. (Scholar)
• Ray, R., 1985, “Rhetorical Skepticism and Verisimilar Narrative in John of Salisbury’s Historia Pontificalis”, in Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiograhy, Ernst Breisach (ed.), Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, pp. 61–102. (Scholar)
• Schmitt, C.B., 1972, Cicero Skepticus: A Study of the Influence of the Academica in the Renaissance, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Shogimen, T. and C.J. Nederman, 2011, “The Best Medicine? Medical Education, Practice and Metaphor in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon”, Viator, 42: 55–74. (Scholar)
• Struve, T., 1984, “The Importance of the Organism in the Political Theory of John of Salisbury”, in Wilks 1984b: 303–317. (Scholar)
• Tobin, R.B., 1989, “The Cornifician Motif in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon”, History of Education, 13: 1–6. (Scholar)
• Van Laarhoven, J., 1984, “Thou Shalt Not Slay a Tyrant! The So-called Theory of John of Salisbury”, in Wilks 1984b: 319–341. (Scholar)
• von Moos, P., 1984, Geschichte als Topik, Darmstadt: Olms Verlag. (Scholar)
• Webb, C.C.J., 1932, John of Salisbury, London: Methuen. (Scholar)
• Wilks, M., 1984a, “John of Salisbury and the Tyranny of Nonsense”, in Wilks 1984b: 263–286. (Scholar)
• Wilks, M. (ed.), 1984b, The World of John of Salisbury, Oxford: Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society. (Scholar)