The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
Overview
Composed in Paris in the late 1120’s, Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalicon provided intellectual and practical orientation for students of varying ages and levels of attainment who came in numbers to the newly founded Abbey of Saint Victor. As students took up studies at their different levels, this “medieval guide to the arts” offered a survey of all they should ultimately read, and of the order, manner, and purpose which should govern their reading, both in the arts or disciplines, and in Sacred Scripture. Jerome Taylor provides an in-depth introduction to The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor where he discusses the life of Hugh of St. Victor, the translation process from Latin to English, and the various original manuscripts still in existence.
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This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
Key Features
- Presents the work of renowned medieval theologian
- Offers in-depth analysis of the life of Hugh of St. Victor
- Provides insight into the Middle Ages
Praise for the Print Edition
This treatise, produced in the early years of the twelfth-century Renaissance by one of its most important theologians and educators, offers a vision of human knowledge as an integrated whole that works to perfect the human person. It is a crucial text for those interested in the study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, in the history of schools and pedagogy, and in the survival of the classical tradition in the West.
—Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University
Product Details
- Title: The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
- Author: Hugh of St. Victor
- Translator: Dom Aloysius Smith
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 1961
- Pages: 254
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Medieval Church
About the Author
Hugh of St. Victor (c. 1096–1141) taught at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris after which he is named. His numerous theological works and commentaries on Augustine were highly regarded, and the hundreds of original works that have survived in libraries all across Europe today reflect how popular and influential they were.
About the Translator
Jerome Taylor was a professor of medieval studies at Notre Dame University. He has translated, edited, or contributed to numerous books, including Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual, Chaucer Criticism: An Anthology, and Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth-Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West.
This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
- Presents the work of renowned medieval theologian
- Offers in-depth analysis of the life of Hugh of St. Victor
- Provides insight into the Middle Ages
Top Highlights
“‘Divided, it gathers movement into twin spheres’10 because, whether it goes out to sensible things through its senses or ascends to invisible things through its understanding, it circles about, drawing to itself the likenesses of things; and thus it is that one and the same mind, having the capacity for all things, is fitted together out of every substance and nature by the fact that it represents within itself their imaged likeness.” (Page 46)
“two things which restore the divine likeness in man, namely the contemplation of truth and the practice of virtue” (Pages 54–55)
“Composed at Paris in the late 1120’s,1 the book provided intellectual an” (Page 3)
“Chapter Five: Concerning Tropology, That Is, Morality” (Page 144)
This treatise, produced in the early years of the twelfth-century Renaissance by one of its most important theologians and educators, offers a vision of human knowledge as an integrated whole that works to perfect the human person. It is a crucial text for those interested in the study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, in the history of schools and pedagogy, and in the survival of the classical tradition in the West.
—Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University
- Title: The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
- Author: Hugh of St. Victor
- Translator: Dom Aloysius Smith
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 1961
- Pages: 254
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Medieval Church
Hugh of St. Victor (c. 1096–1141) taught at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris after which he is named. His numerous theological works and commentaries on Augustine were highly regarded, and the hundreds of original works that have survived in libraries all across Europe today reflect how popular and influential they were.
About the Translator
Jerome Taylor was a professor of medieval studies at Notre Dame University. He has translated, edited, or contributed to numerous books, including Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual, Chaucer Criticism: An Anthology, and Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth-Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West.