Alanus from Insulis
Alanus ab Insulis (also Alanus de Insulis , French Alain de Lille ; * around 1120 in Lille (Flemish Rijsel), County of Flanders , France ; † 1202 in Cîteaux , France) was a French scholastic , poet and Cistercian monk and is considered a saint . His feast day is January 30th .
Live and act
Alanus probably studied in Chartres, Paris, Tours and Orléans and taught in Paris and in southern France (Montpellier) first the seven liberal arts , then theology. As a pupil of Gilbert von Poitiers , he was one of the Porretans of the School of Chartres . Alanus was of encyclopedic erudition, which earned him the nickname Doctor universalis . He wrote a collection of proverbs in verse - the so-called parabolae - as well as various theological works on Catholic doctrine, on the heretics , instructions for the sermon and an alphabetically ordered Bible dictionary for the allegorical interpretation of the Bible. He created a deductive system of theology based on mathematical- axiomatic methods .
His main work is the Anticlaudian , which gives an allegorical overview of all the knowledge known at the time. The title alludes to the work In Rufinum by the late antique poet Claudius Claudianus . In the book of Claudian, all human vices come together at the beginning to create the monster Rufinus. In the Anticlaudian all virtues come together to create the divine human being ( divinus homo ) as an inhabitant of the earth.
Rudolf Steiner saw in Alanus from Insulis the high point of the School of Chartres and thus an early pioneer of anthroposophy . In 1973 he was named after the anthroposophically oriented Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter near Bonn.
Fonts
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De planctu naturae (written between 1168 and 1176)
- Translation: De Planctu Naturae. Nature's lament. Latin text, translation and philological-philosophical commentary by Johannes B. Köhler. Münster 2013.
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Anticlaudianus
- Translation: The Anticlaudian or The Books of the Heavenly Creation of the New Man. Translated and introduced by Wilhelm Rath. Stuttgart 1966.
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Parabolae , Proverbiae or Liber parabolarum
- French translation: Les paraboles Maistre Alain en françoys. Edited by Tony Hunt. Modern Humanities Research Association Critical Texts 2, London 2005, ISBN 0-947623-64-7 .
- Distinctiones dictorum theologicarum sive summa Quot modis
- Omnis Mundi Creatura
- Summa Quoniam homines
- Edited by P. Glorieux. Archives d'Histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge. Paris 1954, pp. 113-364
- Liber poenitentialis
- Contra haereticos (In several manuscripts of this tract, which was obviously written during his teaching activities in Montpellier , he is also called Alanus de Montepessulano .)
- Regulae de sacra theologia
- De arte praedicandi
- Sermons
- see. Alain de Lille, Textes inédits, ed. v. Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny . Études de Philosophie Médiévale, LII, Paris 1995
- Sermons for the course of the year. Ed. U. trans. v. Bruno Sandkühler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7725-1628-9
literature
- From the lament of nature - De planctu naturae. Alanus from insulis. In: Cistercian Chronicle . 117th vol., H. 2/3, 2010, pp. 175-380.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : ALANUS from Insulis (actually: Alain de Lille). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 73-74.
- Amelie Bendheim: Alanus from Insulis' “Anticlaudianus” and Heinrich von Mügeln's “Der Meide Kranz” . In: Amelie Bendheim, Heinz Sieburg (eds.): Prague in the time of the Luxembourg dynasty . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4634-4 , pp. 101–118.
- Johan Huizinga : About the connection of the poetic with the theological in Alanus de Insulis 1932, In: Johan Huizinga: Verzamelde werken. Vol. 4. Haarlem 1953, pp. 3-83.
- Gabriel Silagi: Alanus from Insulis . In: Theological Real Encyclopedia . Vol. 2. De Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-11-006944-X , pp. 155-160.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alanus from Insulis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alanus from Insulis in the German Digital Library
- Digital copies at the MDZ
Remarks
- ↑ See Tony Hunt: Les paraboles Maistre Alain . In: Forum for Modern Language Studies . XXI, No. 4, 1985, ISSN 0015-8518 , pp. 362-375. doi : 10.1093 / fmls / XXI.4.362 . Accessed November 6, 2010. .
- ↑ Martin Grabmann : The history of the scholastic method, based on the printed and unprinted sources , Volume 2, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956, p. 457.
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SURNAME | Alanus from Insulis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alain de Lille; Alanus de Insulis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Cistercian monk and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1120 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille |
DATE OF DEATH | 1202 |
Place of death | Citeaux |