ABSTRACT
The long life of Ramon Lull (1232 to circa 1316) spans one of the most highly systematized periods of Western thought, the great thirteenth century which saw the development of scholasticism out of the re-discovered Aristotle. Though he stands apart from the main currents of scholasticism, Lull shared to the full the major drives of his age, its intense piety combined with rigorous method. Believing that he had had revealed to him an essential truth – or rather a method of demonstrating essential truth – he poured forth throughout his life, with incredible energy, a vast number of works many of which are expositions of, or related in some way to, his central systems.
