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Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Jean Buridan
1300 – 1358
French

Theologian. Although a churchman, he is remembered for his work in logic, especially the problem of Buridan's Ass, in which an ass cannot decide between two equally desirable bales of hay and thus starves.

Contemporaries
1250–1305Jean de Meung
1330–1384Wycliffe
1285–1349William of Ockham
1270–1305Sir William Wallace
1230–1306Jacopone da Todi
fl. c. 1250–c. 1350Wilhelm Tell
1290–1349Richard of Hampole Rolle
1313–1354Cola di Rienzi
1254–1324Marco Polo
1304–1374Petrarch
1275–1342Marsilius of Padua
fl. 1350Jehan de Mandeville
1235–1315Ramon Llull
1332–1400William Langland
1342–1413Julian of Norwich
1224–1317Jean Joinville
1340–1399John of Gaunt
1325–1408John Gower
1256–1302Gertrude of Helfta
1333–1404Jean Froissart
1260–1327Johannes Eckhart
1265–1308Johannes Duns Scotus
1265–1321Dante
1347–1380Catherine of Siena
1274–1329Robert Bruce
1235–1303Boniface VIII
1313–1375Giovanni Boccaccio
1320–1395John Barbour