12th-century writers

Aelred (1110 – 12 January 1167), also Ailred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc.

Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 – July 25, 1195) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains.

Benjamin of Tudela (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין מִטּוּדֶלָה, pronounced [binjaˈmin mituˈdela]; Arabic: بنيامين التطيلي‎‎;‎ Tudela, Kingdom of Navarre, 1130 – Castile, 1173) was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 12th century.

Joannes or John Zonaras (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ζωναρᾶς, Iōánnēs Zōnarâs; fl. 12th century) was a Byzantine chronicler and theologian who lived in Constantinople.

Eustathius of Thessalonica (or Eustathios of Thessalonike; Greek: Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης; c. 1115 – 1195/6) was a Greek scholar and Archbishop of Thessalonica.

Eadmer or Edmer (c. 1060 – c. 1126) was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic.

Sæmundur Sigfússon (or Sæmundur fróði) (Sæmundur the Learned) (1056–1133) was an Icelandic priest and scholar.

Petachiah of Regensburg, also known as Petachiah ben Yakov, Moses Petachiah, and Petachiah of Ratisbon, was a Bohemian rabbi of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries CE.

Peter Abelard (/ˈæb.ə.lɑːrd/; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; French: Pierre Abélard, pronounced: [a.be.laːʁ]; 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician.

Walter Map (Latin: Gualterius Mappus; 1140 – c. 1210) was a medieval writer of works written in Latin.

John Tzetzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Τζέτζης) (c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.

Theodore Prodromos or Prodromus (Greek: Θεόδωρος Πρόδρομος; c. 1100 – c. 1165/70), probably also the same person as the so-called Ptochoprodromos (Πτωχοπρόδρομος "Poor Prodromos"), was a Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poetry.

Warner or Garnier (fl. 1106), was an English writer of homilies, and a monk of Westminster.

Joseph ben Judah ibn Aknin (c. 1150 – c. 1220) was a Jewish writer of numerous treatises, mostly on the Mishnah and the Talmud.

Artephius (Artefius) (c. 1150) is a writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed.

Robert the Monk or Robert of Rheims (born 1047, died 1122) was a chronicler of the First Crusade.

Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (Persian: مسعود سعد سلمان‎‎) was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet.

James of Venice was a significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century.

Rashid al-Din Muhammad Umar-i Vatvāt (Persian: امیر امام رشیدالدین سعدالملک محمد بن محمد بن عبدالجلیل عمری‎‎) (d. 1182–1183) was a 12th-century Sunni Khwarezmian panegyrist and epistolographer.

Philip de Thaun (sometimes Philippe de Thaun, Philippe de Thaon or Philip de Thaon) was the first Anglo-Norman poet.

Ælnoth or Ailnoth was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk from Canterbury who settled in Denmark, and is known as author of a legend of the Danish king Saint Canute (Canute IV), who had been killed in Odense in 1086 and was canonized by the Pope 1100 or 1101.

Robert Biket (fl. c. 1175) was the author of Lai du cor ('The Lai of the Horn'), a late-12th-century Anglo-Norman Breton lai.

Andronikos Doukas Kamateros (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Δούκας Καματηρός) was a Byzantine aristocrat, senior official under Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and theologian, best known for his theological treatise Sacred Arsenal.