Historiographical Contribution
Alexander was said to have been the earliest scholastics to engage in Aristotle's newly translated writings (Metaphysics). This had been a very important to the ideals of scholastic thought. Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study. This steered the school of scholasticism in a more systematic direction He also appears to be the first theologian to use more than by mere chance of haphazardly concepts drawn from the Metaphysics of Aristole.
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