Published : 2024-11-22

„Multa in his omnibus latent profunda mysteria”. Hugh, Richard and Adam of St Victor’s understanding of church building

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview, without going into too much detail, of how church building was understood by selected three of the Victorines: Hugh († 1141), Richard († 1173) and Adam of St Victor († 1150). The study consists of three parts. The first contains four introductory remarks (the school of St Victor, the source texts, the symbolic mentality of medieval man, the distinction between two types of victorine interpretation of church building, ecclesial [adjective from the Latin noun ecclesia] and animalistic [adjective from the Latin noun anima]). The main part of the paper is formed by the second and third points of the text. The second point discusses three texts that contain an ecclesial interpretation of the Christian temple edifice: Sermo I by Richard from the tenth book of the second part of his Liber exceptionum and sequences XXIV and XXV by Adam. The third section presents two texts that lay out an animalistic reading of sacred architecture: Richard’s Sermo II of his Liber exceptionum and the fifth part of the second book of Hugo’s De sacramentis christianae fidei. The whole concludes with two summarising remarks.

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temple, church, soul, Victorines, Hugh of St Victor, Richard of St Victor, Adam of St Victor



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Teka of the Historical Sciences Commission of the Learned Society of KUL |ISSN 2658-1175 eISSN 2719-3144 DOI: 10.18290/tkh

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