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What is a schoolman?

What is a schoolman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A medieval writer or scholar focusing on the subjects taught at universities (such as theology, metaphysics and logic); a scholastic.
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As a schoolman he was a Nominalist and received the title of the Invincible Doctor.
He seems to have been self-taught rather than to have been a schoolman.
Such is the proposition of the schoolman that Alexander could not have subdued any countries without an army.
In the summer of 1872 he read Duns Scotus, a medieval schoolman, for the first time.
He is as prioristic as a medieval schoolman, in spite of his scientific pose.
But the soul of the mystic in stone contains the same elements as the soul of Eckhart, who was also a schoolman.

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