ON LOVE
A
Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St. Victor
Hugh Feiss, OSB (ed.)
A Selection of
Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St. Victor
PAPERBACK; 391 PAGES; 2012
ISBN: 978-1-56548-434-4
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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 (d. 1141): The Praise of Charity; The Betrothal
Gift of the Soul; In Praise of the Spouse; On the Substance of Love; What
Truly Should Be Loved?
2. Richard (d. 1173), On the Four Degrees of Violent Love, compares romantic
love and the love of God
3. Achard (d. 1170), Sermon 5 and two of Adam’s sequences show how these
authors wove love into their writings
4. Excerpts from the Microcosmus by Godfrey (d. ca. 1195) summarize the central
place of love in his humanistic theological anthropology
Some Reviews:
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. In Victorine
hands, exegesis, liturgy, psychology, and even cosmology glow with this transforming
flame. Hugh and Richard had an incalculable influence on later medieval piety,
while the lesser-known texts by Adam, Achard, and Godfrey round out this picture
of the great Parisian abbey in its heyday.
Barbara Newman
Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin
at Northwestern University
Love is an experience
given fresh and exhilarating insight by a series of remarkable teachers nurtured
by the abbey of St. Victor in twelfth-century Paris. In the various essays
of Hugh of St. Victor introduced and translated in this volume, all relating
to love, we find the calm voice of a master on the greatness of ordered love.
In the sequences of Adam of St Victor, we find crisp poems of divine praise.
Achard of St Victor brings speculative genius to his reading of the Bible.
Richard of St Victor plunges us into the violence of love. Godfrey of St Victor
expounds love as the force that binds man to God. 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
“Love was perhaps
one of the most major aspects of Christ’s teachings. On Love discusses
the writings surrounding Christ’s commandment of love, that one should
love God above all else and love thy neighbor as you love thyself. Hugh Feiss
digs through the medieval manuscripts for much spoken on the topic and presents
an interesting historical insight on the history of Christianity. On Love
is a strong pick for religion and Christian studies collections.”
The Midwest Book Review
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
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