Alain de Lille

Alanus from Insulis ( Alain de Lille, Alanis from Insulis or Alanus de Insulis; * around 1120 in Lille ( Fl. Rijsel ), Count of Flanders, France, † 1202 in Citeaux, France) was a French scholastic, poet and Cistercian monk and is as a saint. His feast day is January 30.

Life

Alanus studied probably at Chartres, Paris, Tours and Orléans and taught in Paris and in the south of France (Montpellier), first the liberal arts, then theology. He was of encyclopedic erudition, which earned him the nickname Doctor universalis. He wrote a collection of proverbs in verse - the so-called Parabolae - and various theological works on the Catholic doctrine of the heretics, a guide to the sermon, and an alphabetical Bible dictionary for the allegorical interpretation of the Bible. He created a structured according to mathematical and axiomatic methods deductive system of theology.

His main work is the anti- Claudian, which gives an overview of the whole then known knowledge in allegorical representation. The title alludes to the work in Rufinum of late antique poet Claudius Claudian. In the book of Claudian come together at the beginning of all human vices to create the monster Rufinus. In the anti- Claudian all virtues come together to create the divine man ( divinus homo) as inhabitants of the earth.

Writings

  • De planctu naturae ( written 1168-1176 )
  • Anticlaudianus Dt. Translation: The Anti- Claudian or the books of the heavenly creation of the New Man. Translated and introduced by Wilhelm Rath. Stuttgart 1966.
  • French translation: Les paraboles Maistre Alain de Françoys. Edited by Tony Hunt. Modern Humanities Research Association Critical Texts 2, London 2005, ISBN 0-947623-64-7.
  • Ed P.Glorieux. Archives d' Histoire littéraire du Moyen Âge et doctrinale. Paris 1954, p.113 -364
  • See Alain de Lille, text inédits, ed. v. Marie -Thérèse d' Alverny. Études de Philosophie Médiévale, LII, Paris 1995
  • Sermons on the course of the year. Edited and transl. v. Bruno Sandkühler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7725-1628-9

Quotes

  • Derived from him: " All roads lead to Rome" from Mille viae ducunt hominem by saecula Romam, literally " thousand roads lead men constantly to Rome ", Alanus from Insulis, Liber parabolarum
  • " The authority has a nose of wax, they can be deformed in any direction"
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