Hugh of Amiens and the twelfth-century Renaissance

Freeburn, Ryan P.

Hugh of Amiens and the twelfth-century Renaissance [electronic resource] / Ryan P. Freeburn. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. - 1 online resource (xiii, 276 p.) - Church, faith, and culture in the medieval West . - Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-268) and index.

Hugh of Amiens: cleric, monk and bishop -- The epistola gravioni: the origin of the soul and the beginning of a career -- The poems of Hugh of Amiens -- The dialogues and the early stages of systematic theology -- Hugh of Amiens and the monastic life: Cluny, monk-priests, and the reprehensio -- A saintly crusader and hermit: the vita sancti adjutoris -- "In principio Deus creavit": -- In hexaemeron and the tradition of hexaemeral commentary -- Hugh of Amiens and the heretics: the polemics of contra haereticos -- Speculation, contemplation and a host of septenaries: super fide catholica et oratione dominica -- De memoria: memory and unity in the face of schism.

9781409427353 (electronic bk.) 1409427358 (electronic bk.)


Hugh, of Amiens, Archbishop of Rouen, ca. 1080-1164.


Church history--12th century.
Renaissance.
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic


Electronic books.

BR1725.H74 / F74 2011eb

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