Achard of Saint-Victor, OSA (†1171)

abbot of Saint-Victor, later bishop of Avranches

Repertories

Bibliography

  • G. Murano, ‘Le opere di Acardo di San Vittore (†1170/71)’, RHT new ser. 5 (2010), 159–73.
  • J. Châtillon, Théologie, spiritualité, et métaphysique dans l’œuvre d’Achard de Saint-Victor. Études d’histoire doctrinale précédées d’un essai sur la vie et l’oeuvre d’Achard (Paris 1969).

Notes

Kirkstead lists one sermon, ‘Super euangelium Ductus est’ (K71), to which Bale, Index, 2, gave the title ‘de Christi tentatione’.

Two letters of Achard to King Henry II and Arnulf of Lisieux are preserved in one of the contemporary letter-collections from Saint-Victor (PL 196. 1381–2; G. Teske, Die Briefsammlungen des 12. Jahrhunderts in St. Viktor (Bonn 1993), ???).