Fundamental Writings

by Hugh odf St Victor

Contemplative Series Vol. 2

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You are in possession of what is to date, the greatest collection of Hugh of St. Victor, who  is the author of  the works translated collectively in this book, he was probably born in the year of 1096 in Scotland others contend Saxony, Germany's current territory,  where he received his first education in a monastic school.  From there he moved to Paris, the largest center for studies in Europe of his time, entering the monastery of St. Victor, being recently founded by William of Champeaux. 

In 1125, he became a professor in the monastery, in 1133, director of the attached school, in time becoming the prior.  He dies in St. Victor on February 11, 1141. He was probably one of the greatest theologians of the 12th century, coupled with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Peter Lombard, who were likewise professors of theology.  It may seem redundant today, adding that a theologian has been professor of theology, but the fact is that the greatest theologians before the average age were not.

We describe this teaching through the texts of one of the educators of that time, which was responsible for the school attached to the monastery of St. Victor.  Limiting ourselves to their texts, however, and their school, not only presents the educational ideas of one man, because he is the first that strives to present in their texts, in general terms, not only their personal ideas but the tradition which lives on and what is our work as an educator.

The school of St. Victor, which was responsible, has its origin in Paris, at the end of the eleventh century, annexed to the abbey of St. Victor, which played in the following century role of high importance in the spiritual and cultural events in Europe. Founded by William of Champeaux, after some years had an individual by the name of Hugh of St. Victor who attached himself in a way very similar to what in the next century of St. Thomas Aquinas would relate to the early history of the Dominican order.

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