Hugh of St Victor (c. 1096–1141), master of the abbey school of St Victor in Paris, the most influential teacher of the twelfth century after Anselm. He held that every created thing is a sign, and that the liberal arts are the road to Scripture rather than a distraction from it; his pupils carried that method through the schools of Paris.
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- Explanation of the Rule of St Augustine — A commentary on the Rule that governed the canons regular of St Victor, and through them much of twelfth-century religious life: what it means to have one heart and one soul, to hold nothing as one’s own, and to be corrected without bitterness. (12 notes)