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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Alanus ab Insulis (1114–c. 1203)

Alanus ab Insulis (a-lā’nus ab in’sū-lis) or Alain de Lille (ä-la‘ de lēl). A noted French scholastic philosopher (1114–c. 1203). Of his voluminous theological writings the best known is the treatise on ‘The Articles of the Faith.’ His poem ‘Anti-Claudianus, or On the Duties of a Good and Perfect Man’ is one of the most remarkable poetic compositions of the Middle Ages. His ‘Complaint of Nature’ was known to Chaucer.