 Boethius is a very independent thinker, and self-consciously so. Except for one unclear reference to Albert the Great, Boethius never names contemporaries or close predecessors, and so far only one source of influence has been identified with certainty: Albert the Great. However, Albert’s influence is only noticeable in the questions on Meteorology IV (see Fioravanti 1979), and only regards matters of little philosophical importance. Some passages in the remaining œuvre may indicate influence from Thomas Aquinas (Summa contra gentiles, Summa theologiae), but there is no scholarly consensus on this issue.