The Library
1693 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1101–1200
5 works
c. 1125–1130
Latin
Hugh of Saint Victor · c. 1096–1141
What to read and in what order, dividing all knowledge into theoretical, practical, mechanical, and logical, and insisting the mechanical arts belong in the scheme.
c. 1130–1137
Latin
Hugh of Saint Victor · c. 1096–1141
The whole of doctrine arranged as the work of creation and the work of restoration, with the sacraments as the medicines applied in the second.
c. 1120–1146
Latin
Adam of Saint Victor · d. c. 1146
Liturgical sequences in tightly rhymed accentual verse, dense with typological images drawn from the Old Testament.
c. 1153–1162
Latin
Benjamin Major
Richard of Saint Victor · d. 1173
The ark of the covenant read as a diagram of contemplation, with six kinds of contemplative seeing rising from the senses to what exceeds reason.
c. 1162–1173
Latin
Richard of Saint Victor · d. 1173
An argument for the Trinity from the nature of love itself: perfect charity cannot be solitary, and requires not only a beloved but a third with whom love is shared.
5 of 1693 works