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A Companion to the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris.

Feiss, Hugh.

A Companion to the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (662 pages) - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series ; v.79 . - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series .

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Chapter 1. "Devout, Learned, and Virtuous": The History and Histories of the Order of Saint Victor (Crossnoe) -- ‎Part 1. Life and Ministry at Saint Victor -- ‎Chapter 2. Daily Life at the Abbey of Saint Victor (Mousseau) -- ‎Chapter 3. Victorine Humanism (Jaeger) -- ‎Chapter 4. Hugh of Saint Victor's Pedagogy (Hawk-Reinhard) -- ‎Chapter 5. Pastoral Ministry: Preaching and Confession (Feiss) -- ‎Part 2. The Interpretation of the Scriptures -- ‎Chapter 6. Exegesis in Quest of Progress: A Study of Hugh of Saint Victor's Cronica and Notule Super Pentateucum et Librum Regum (Berndt) -- ‎Chapter 7. Following in the Footsteps of Hugh: Exegesis at Saint Victor, 1142-1242 (van Liere) -- ‎Chapter 8. Scripture and the Development of Scholastic Theology: Robert of Melun's Questiones de divina pagina in Context (Harkins) -- ‎Part 3. Sacraments and Theology -- ‎Chapter 9. Sacraments (Poirel) -- ‎Chapter 10. Victorine Christology: A Theology of the Homo Assumptus (Evans) -- ‎Chapter 11. Victorines on the Trinity (Feiss) -- ‎Chapter 12. Philosophy and Metaphysics in the School of Saint Victor: From Achard to Godfrey (Albertson) -- ‎Part 4. Prayer and the Christian Life -- ‎Chapter 13. The Victorines and the Medieval Liturgy (Fassler) -- ‎Chapter 14. Affectivity and Knowledge Lead to Devotion to God: A Historical-Theological Study of Hugh of Saint Victor's De virtute orandi (Ganss) -- ‎Chapter 15. Mystical Experience According to Hugh of Saint Victor: Principles, Foundations, and Types (Sicard) -- ‎Chapter 16. Magister in hierarchia: Thomas Gallus as Victorine Interpreter of Dionysius (Coolman) -- ‎Chapter 17. The Reception of the Victorines in Later Centuries (Edstam) -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.

The authors trace the history of the abbey, but focuses on the canons' life and ministry, theology, biblical exegesis during the twelfth century, concluding with an examination of reception of Victorine scholarship in the later Middle Ages.

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Saint-Victor (Abbey : Paris, France).
France-Church history.


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