Willemien Otten studies the history of Christianity and Christian thought with a focus on the Western medieval and the early Christian intellectual tradition, including the continuity of Platonic themes. She has worked extensively on the Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena and on twelf...
Willemien Otten studies the history of Christianity and Christian thought with a focus on the Western medieval and the early Christian intellectual tradition, including the continuity of Platonic themes. She has worked extensively on the Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena and on twelfth century humanistic thinkers including Peter Abelard. Her general interest lies in analyzing (early) medieval thought and theology as an amalgam of biblical, ancient, and patristic influences which, woven together, constitute their own intellectual matrix.