Alcher from Clairvaux

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Alcher of Clairvaux was a Cistercian - monk in the monastery of Clairvaux in the 12th century .

Two works are ascribed to him, but in the opinion of some humanities scholars this fact is partially revised or doubted. The books were therefore written by an anonymous author and contemporary of Alcher. Thomas Aquinas mentions Alcher's book De spiritu et anima in his Summa theologica . It is now included in a collection of texts from around 1170 and is considered a source of medieval views of self-control.

The second book, De diligendo Deo , is a pious work and is attributed to Alcher. He also dealt with the dream doctrine of the Neoplatonic scholar Macrobius , which provides a five-part scheme of dream types: oraculum , visio , somnium , insomnium and phantasma .

literature

  • Leo Norpoth: The pseudo-Augustinian treatise De spiritu et anima. Munich 1971 (dissertation).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Order by Sister Kathleen O'Neill (English)
  2. ↑ Louis G. Kelly: The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, Philosophy, and the Modistae 2002, p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Alcher from Clairvaux
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval monk and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 12th century or 13th century