Abstract

Gerard of Cenad is the author of Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum, an eleventh Century Latin mystical and philosophical treatise, in many ways specific to the Carolingian Age, inspired by the Dyonisian and Eriugenian terminology. It contains many arguments for introducing Gerard as typical medieval philosopher; still, it was only at the end of the Eighteenth Century that Gerard’s work knew its first printed edition, made by Bishop Ignatius Batthyány of Transylvania who named Gerard a philosopher for the first time as well. Nevertheless, neither European philosophical historiography nor academic classicists noticed it until the end of the twentieth Century. In our study we inspect the most representative arguments that support considering Gerard a philosopher as they appear in Batthyány’s preface to his 1790 edition in order to contribute to a coherent narrative regarding what is philosophy in Gerard of Cenad according to his first editor and commentator.