/lit/ - Literature

Why is he so unpopular? I mean I don't doubt that he wasn't as big of a deal as Aquinas or Augustine but when people talk about how there wasn't anything interesting going on in western philosophy between Augustine and Anselm he very rarely gets mentioned despite the Periphyseon being so comprehensive and elaborate.

What does /lit/ think about Eriugena? Why is he so slept on by most people?

>is a hobbit from the irl shire (ireland)
>theologian mystic
>comfy looking blanky man
>spiritually german (spent most of his time in Aachen)
>works commissioned directly by Carolingian King Charles the Bald and directly spurred the Carolingian Renaissance
>neoplatonist catholic
>polyglot
>absolute joker
When in King Charles's court, he was asked - "what separates a drunkard from an Irishman?" Eriugena replied; "Only a Table."

i think i've found /myguy/

Where shoud I start with him?
What shoud I read before him?

>tfw no middle-aged Neo-Platonist Irish bf wearing comfy coats to have anal sex with

Can I get a rundown on the Division of Nature?

>reading books released post-boomer-50s that aren't comfy genre-fiction

What does /lit/ think of John Scotus Eriugena?

Thoughts on 'The Division of Nature'?

>>11125800
PLAGARISM

>>11117279
>Aristotle was the first saint desu
Fucking heretical Catholics with their rational theology, leave the celestial mysteries alone REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

God's mind is unknowable even to him, so the question of God 'feeling' anything is moot.

>How can the divine nature understand what it is, when it is no-thing? For it transcends everything that is. God does not know what he is because he is not a ‘what.’ Both to himself and to every intellect he is incomprehensible in anything.

>you will never be a comfy Irish Neo-Platonist

What are some good books that engage with or try to extend the theories of medieval philosophers? I know I could work through bibliographies on SEP but I'm hoping someone here has some recommendations.