The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts (Biblia.com)

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Composed in Paris in the late 1120’s, Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalicon provided intellectual and practical orientation for students of varying ages and levels of attainment who came in numbers to the newly founded Abbey of Saint Victor. As students took up studies at their different levels, this “medieval guide to the arts” offered a survey of all they should ultimately read, and of the order,...

. The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor aims to select and define all the areas of knowledge important to man and to demonstrate not only that these areas are essentially integrated among themselves, but that in their integrity they are necessary to man for the attainment of his human perfection and his divine destiny. Composed at Paris in the late 1120’s,1 the book provided intellectual and practical orientation for students of varying ages

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