On Love
A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St Victor
By (author) Hugh Feiss OSB
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.
- By (author) Hugh Feiss OSB
Other Titles in this Series
Life at Saint Victor
The Liber Ordinis, the Life of William of Aebelholt, and a selection of works of Hugh, Richard, and Odo of Saint Victor, and other authors
Volume 9
On the Sacraments
A Selection of Works of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, and of Peter of Poitiers
Volume 10
Interpretation of Scripture
Practice: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Andrew, Richard, and Leontius of St Victor, and of Robert of Melun, Peter Comestor and Maurice of Sully
Volume 6
Writings on the Spiritual Life
A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, Walter, and Godfrey of St Victor
Volume 4
Interpretation of Scripture
Theory. A Selection of Works of Hugh, Andrew, Godfrey and Richard of St Victor, and Robert of Melun
Volume 3
Spiritual Formation and Mystical Symbolism
A Selection of Works of Hugh and Richard of St Victor, and of Thomas Gallus
Volume 5
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