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Hugo Metellus
Hugh Metel (; – ) was an Augustinian canon and scholar known for his surviving collection of 55 letters plus several poems, all in Latin. He was a native of the Duchy of Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire, where he spent most of his life, although he was educated in France. Although Hugh's letters have at times "great documentary value", they have been judged "ridiculous ... in their mixture ... of fulsome flattery, self-glorification and unasked advice, all expressed in the most bombastic language". This widely-shared judgement is based largely on Hugh's two letters to Heloise. In the view of Constant Mews, a fuller analysis of his writings reveals him to have been a "imaginative and innovative writer". Life Hugh was born in Toul. He claims in a letter to have been an adoptive brother of Albero de Montreuil, later archbishop of Trier. He probably obtained his primary education at the cathedral of Toul, where Odo of Tournai taught until about 1090. He later studied at the school o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustinian Canon
The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule ( and κανών, ''kanon'', in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology. As religious communities, they have laybrothers as part of the community. At times, their Orders have been very popular: in England in the 12th century, there were more houses of canons (often referred to as an abbey or canonry) than monasteries of monks. Preliminary distinctions All canons regular are to be distinguished from secular canons who belong to a resident group of priests but who do not take public vows and are not governed in whatever elements of life they lead in common by a historical rule. One obvious place where such groups of priests are required is at a cathedral, where there were many Masses to celebrate and the Divine Office to be prayed tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
