VTT 02 On Love, Feiss: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St Victor: 2 (Victorine Texts in Translation) - Hardcover

Feiss Osb, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503534597 ISBN 13: 9782503534596

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

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 one's 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): ThePraise 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.

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Review

Hugh Feiss and his team have made an invaluable contribution to medieval studies. These twelfth-century texts, assembled for the first time in one volume, still blaze with the passionate love of God that once set a world on fire. -- Barbara Newman "Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University"

This volume provides a magnificent point of entry into the fascinating diversity of Victorine authors, all of whom contributed in their own way to fresh thinking about love, human and divine. -- Constant J. Mews "Professor, Monash University and Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology"

From the Back Cover

"In addition to the excellent and learned, yet accessible, general introduction by Feiss, each of the selections of the Victorines is preceded by its own introduction and followed by endnotes ... the editorial committee has made judicious decisions on the most representative texts of these authors on the question of love ... For those interested in reading more of each author, and can read in other languages, the volume contains a rich and varied bibliography of primary texts in addition to notes that cite the secondary literature." - Benedict M. Guevin, OSB in American Benedictine Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503534597
• ISBN 13: 9782503534596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391