 A few scattered references to Pyrrhonian skepticism have been found in the Latin West, in the works of Bede (early 8th century), Rabanus Maurus (9th century), and Peter of Auvergne (late 13th century). More was known of it to Byzantine and Islamic philosophers, since knowledge of Greek was preserved in their intellectual communities, and since they had access to a greater range of ancient texts that addressed the topic.