The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

by Henry Osborn Taylor

[374] Jotsaldus, Vita Odilonis (Migne 142, col. 1037).

[375] Odilo, Vita Maioli (Migne 142, col. 951).

[376] See Taylor, Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, p. 74 sqq. One may compare the influence of Cicero’s De amicitia on the De amicitia Christiana of Peter of Blois (cir. 1200), Migne 207, col. 871-898.

[377] Vita Odilonis, chaps. vi.-xiii. (Migne 142, col. 909 sqq.).

[378] Bellum Gallicum, vi. 13.

[379] Migne 143, col. 1290.

[380] For a description of these works, see post, Chapter XXX. II.

[381] The substance of this sketch of the school of Chartres is taken chiefly from the Abbé Clerval’s exhaustive study, “Les Écoles de Chartres au moyen âge,” Mémoires de la Société archéologique d’Eure-et-Loir, xi., 1895. For the later fortunes of this school see post, Chapter XXX.

[382] The Histories of Gerbert’s pupil Richer are somewhat better, and show an imitation of Sallust.

[383] Cf. Molinier, Les Sources de l’histoire de France, v., lxix.