Alcher of Clairvaux

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Alcher of Clairvaux was a twelfth-century

Cistercian monk of Clairvaux Abbey. He was once thought to be the author of two works, now attributed by many scholars to an anonymous pseudo-Augustine of the same period.[1][2][3]

Hugh of St Victor, Isaac of Stella, and Isidore of Seville;[7] also Boethius.[8] It is a source for medieval views on self-control,[9] and the doctrine that the soul rules the body.[10]

De diligendo Deo is a devotional work, also traditionally attributed to Alcher.

At one point in the Summa Theologica, Aquinas writes about De Spiritu et Anima, "that book is not of great authority."[11]

References

  • J. M. Canivez: Alcher, in: Dictionnaire de Spiritualité v. 1 (1937), 294f
  • Leo Norpoth, Der Pseudo-Augustinische Traktat: De spiritu et anima (Dissertation, Munich, 1924; Cologne, 1971)
  • G. Raciti, L'autore del De spiritu et anima, Rivista di filosofia neoscolastica 53 (1961) 385-401

Notes

  1. ^ http://users.skynet.be/am012324/studium/oneil/bibper15.htm Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine states that Alcher was at Clairvaux c.1150-1175, but the authorship as increasingly doubtful.
  2. ^ Ioan P. Couliano, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (1987) regards Alcher as more likely than Hugh of St Victor.
  3. Peter Comestor
    as author.
  4. ^ Also Liber de anima et spiritu.
  5. ^ Summa Theologica
  6. ^ SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The form of the judge in coming to the judgment (Supplementum, Q. 90)
  7. ^ Janet Coleman, Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past (1992), p. 220.
  8. ^ http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/hwp213.htm, giving Alcher as author.
  9. ^ Louis G. Kelly, The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, Philosophy, and the Modistae (2002), p. 136.
  10. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia, article Man
  11. ^ "SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The intellectual powers (Prima Pars, Q. 79)".

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