Johannes Scotus (c. 800-c. 877), who signed himself as "Eriugena" in one
manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as "the
Irishman" is the most significant Irish intellectual of the early
monastic period. He is generally recognized to be both the outstanding
philosopher of the Carolingian era and of the whole period of Latin
philosophy stretching from Boethius to Anselm. Since the seventeenth
century, it has become usual to refer to this Irish philosopher as John
Scottus (or 'Scotus') Eriugena to distinguish him from the
thirteenth-century John Duns Scotus. Myra Uhlfelder (Bryn Mawr PhD 1952)
taught classical and medieval Latin at Bryn Mawr.