Hugh of Saint Victor: On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith (Medieval Academy Books : No 58)

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You are in possession of what is to date, the greatest collection of Hugh of St. Victor, who is the author of the works translated collectively in this book. Hugh was most likely born in the year of 1096 in Scotland others contend Saxony, where he received his first education in a monastic school. From there he moved to Paris, the largest center for studies in Europe of his time, while there, entered the monastery of St. Victor. In 1125, he became a professor in the monastery, in 1133, director of the attached school, in time becoming the prior. He dies in St. Victor on February 11, 1141. Many contend that he was one of the greatest theologians of the era, followed by Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Peter Lombard, who were likewise professors of theology. The school of St. Victor, founded by William of Champeaux, has its origin in Paris, at the end of the eleventh century, annexed to the abbey of St. Victor, which in the following century, would play a role of high of importance in the spiritual and cultural events in Europe. Hugh of St. Victor attached himself, in a way very similar to what in the next century of St. Thomas Aquinas would to the early history of the Dominican order.

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Soliloquy On The Earnest Money Of The Soul: Hugh Of St. Victor

Soliloquy on the Earnest Money of the Soul: Hugh of St. Victor

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The version of the Rule of St. Augustine used at the Abbey of St. Victor began with the command to love God above all things and ones neighbor as oneself. Not surprisingly, then, love was a pervasive theme in the writings produced there, many of which are introduced and translated here: (1) five lyrical essays by Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141): The Praise of Charity; The Betrothal Gift of the Soul; In Praise of the Spouse; On the Substance of Love; What Truly Should Be Loved?; (2) On the Four Degrees of Violent Love, by Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173), which traces the likenesses and differences between romantic love and the love of God; (3) Achard of St. Victor (d. 1170), Sermon 5 and two of Adam of St. Victor's sequences are examples of how these authors wove love into their writings; (4) excerpts from the Microcosmus by Godfrey of St. Victor (d. ca. 1195), summarize the central place of love in his humanistic theological anthropology.

On Love: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St. Victor (Victorine Texts in Translation, Vol. 2) (Victorine Texts in Translation, 2)

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