Hugh of Saint Victor

Hugh of Saint Victor c. 1096 – 11 February 1141, was a Saxon canon regular in addition to a leading theologian and writer on mystical theology.

Works

Hugh wrote many works from a 1120s until his death Migne, Patrologia Latina contains 46 works by Hugh, and this is not a full collection, including works of theology both treatises and sententiae, commentaries mostly on the Bible but also including one of pseudo-Dionysius' Celestial Hierarchies, mysticism, philosophy and the arts, and a number of letters and sermons.

Hugh was influenced by numerous people, but chiefly by Saint Augustine, particularly in holding that the arts and philosophy can serve theology.

Hugh's almost significant works include:

Other works by Hugh of St Victor include:

Various other works were wrongly attributed to Hugh in later thought. One such particularly influential construct was the Exposition of the direction of St Augustine, now accepted to be from the Victorine school but not by Hugh of St Victor.

A new edition of Hugh's works has been started. The number one publication is: Hugonis de Sancto Victore De sacramentis Christiane fidei, ed. Rainer Berndt, Münster: Aschendorff, 2008.