The Didascalitation of Hugh of St Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts (Records of Western Civilization Series) - Hardcover

Taylor, J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231024444 ISBN 13: 9780231024440

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon, composed in the late 1130's.

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Review

This treatise, produced in the early years of the twelth-century Renaissance by one of its most important theologians and educators, offers a vision of human knowledge as an integrated whole person. It is a crucial text for those in the Middle Ages, in the history of schools and pegagogy, and in the survival of the classical tradition in the West.

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This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of Saint Victor's Didascalicon. Composed in the late 1130s, the Didascalicon selects and defines all of the important areas of knowledge, demonstrating that not only are these areas essentially integrated, but that in their integrity they are necessary for the attainment of human perfection and divine destiny.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231024444
• ISBN 13: 9780231024440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254