Table of Contents

• Dominique POIREL | A Europe-wide thought: introduction to the volume
• Dominique POIREL | Qu’est-ce que Saint-Victor?

MAGISTER HUGO

• Agnieszka KIJEWSKA | John Scottus Eriugena and Hugh of Saint Victor: Readers of the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture
• Marco RAININI | Causa omnium homo. Ugo di San Vittore e la nuova antropologia: fra monaci e canonici sulle due rive del Reno
• Cédric GIRAUD | L’école de Saint-Victor, l’humanisme et la « Renaissance du XIIe siècle »: autour du livre I du De vanitate rerum mundanarum d’Hugues de Saint-Victor
• Ineke VAN ’T SPIJKER | Non quaerat extra se, qui haec propter se facta credit. Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Pedagogy
• Pascaline MERCURY | L’amour selon Hugues de Saint-Victor: un humanisme chrétien. Un amour inclusif: la nature comme voie du salut

THE DISCIPLES

• Dennis BRAY | Richard’s Trinitarian Argument In De Trinitate: An Analytic Overview
• Montse LEYRA-CURIA | Andrew’s in hebreo interpretations as a fuller version of some notes in Hugh’s commentary on the Octateuch, Samuel, and Kings
• Frans VAN LIERE | The date of Andrew of Saint Victor’s commentaries on the Prophets, and the curious case of Ms Mazarine
• Antonio SORDILLO | “Speculator castrorum Dei”. Philosophy and Theology in Godfrey of St. Victor’s Sermons
• Marguerite VERNET | Les sermons in generali capitulo d’Absalon de Saint-Victor: réflexions sur la prédication victorine de la fin du XIIe siècle
• Chris SCHABEL | Radices et plantationes theologicae facultatis hic Parisius The Biblical Principia of Pierre Leduc and Henri le Boulangier and the Victorine Tradition during the Great Schism

VICTORINE INFLUENCES

• Constant J. MEWS | An English Response to Victorine thought: Odo’s Ysagoge in theologiam
• Andrea PISTOIA | Scripture and Liturgy, an exclusive means to understand the Church
• Jonas NARCHI | Der mystische Abstieg von der Kontemplation in die Aktion nach Hugo, Achard und Richard von St. Viktor und dessen franziskanische Rezeption im langen 13. Jahrhundert
• Boyd Taylor COOLMAN | Masters, Mystics, & Ministers in the Medieval City
• Gloria SILVANA ELÍAS | La influencia de Ricardo de San Víctor en la noción de persona de Duns Escoto
• Mira MOCAN | Il pensiero vittorino e le origini della letteratura romanza: il caso dei trovatori
• Marcin JANECKI | Un « victorin » parmi les carmes: Thomas de Jésus (1563-1627) et son De contemplatione divina libri sex
• Wanda BAJOR et Marcin JANECKI | Victorina polonica: la présence des victorins dans la culture intellectuelle de la Pologne médiévale et actuelle

OMNIUM EXPETENDORUM PRIMA EST SAPIENTIA

STUDIES ON VICTORINE THOUGHT AND INFLUENCE

Edited by

Dominique POIREL and Marcin Jan JANECKI

in collaboration with

Wanda BAJOR and Michał BURACZEWSKI

Founded at the beginning of the twelfth century on the outskirts of Paris, the Parisian school of Saint-Victor soon became an intellectual center on a European scale: through the international recruitment of its masters; through the wide handwritten dissemination of their works, in particular those of Hugh and Richard; and finally through the extent of its doctrinal contribution to a common European culture, on a large number of points: the importance of acquiring a “general culture”; the need for a rigorous historical approach to biblical texts, open to rabbinic exegesis; a contagious interest in the writings and thought of the pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita; a major contribution to the constitution of a theological discipline; an effort to reconcile fervour in spiritual life and psychological finesse in the analysis of contemplation and its stages. In short, a curiosity for all fields of knowledge and, at the same time, an effort to unify them into a universal and unified wisdom.

The Book gathers new studies on original sources concerning Hugh of St. Victor, as the intellectual founder or the Victorine school; several of his Victorine brothers and disciples: Richard, Achard, Andrew, Godfrey, Absalon, up to late and little known Victorine masters as Pierre Leduc and Henri le Boulangier, at the time of the Great Schism (with critical edition of inedited texts); their influences on twelfth century texts as Ysagoge in theologiam or Speculum Ecclesiae, on Franciscan authors including Antony of Padua, Bonaventure, Rudolf of Biberach, and Duns Scotus, on romance literature of troubadours, on Carmelite authors of the sixteenth century and – a still uncharted territory – on Polish culture from Middle Ages to contemporary times.

• Wanda Bajor est Professeur d’Histoire de la philosophie à l’Université Catholique Jean-Paul II de Lublin (Pologne). Elle a procuré l’édition critique de divers maîtres médiévaux polonais comme Benedictus Hesse and others.
• Michał Buraczewski est étudiant à l’Université Catholique Jean-Paul II de Lublin (Pologne) et prépare une th.se sur Achard de Saint-Victor.
• Marcin Jan Janecki, chercheur au Centre d’histoire de la culture au Moyen Âge de l’Université catholique Jean-Paul II de Lublin (Pologne), est spécialiste des maîtres victorins, en même temps que des Pères syriaques et du Carmel espagnol. Il prépare en ce moment l’édition critique du commentaire à l’Ecclésiaste d’Hugues de Saint-Victor.
• Dominique Poirel est Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Directeur de l’Institut d’Études Médiévales à l’Institut Catholique de Paris et Visiting Professor à l’Université Catholique Jean-Paul II de Lublin (Pologne). Il co-dirige la collection Bibliotheca Victorina, la série Hugonis de Sancto Victore opera au Corpus Christianorum et la collection Sous la Règle de saint Augustin.