Honorius Augustodunensis

Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1080 – c. 1140), commonly known as Honorius of Autun, was a 12th-century Christian theologian.

Life

Augustodunensis said that he is Honorius Augustodunensis ecclesiae presbyter et scholasticus. "Augustodunensis" was taken to mean Autun (Augustodunum), but that identification is now generally rejected. There is no solid reasoning for any other identification (such as Augst/Augustodunensem praesulem near Basle, Augsburg/Augusta Vindelicorum in Swabia, or Augustinensis, from St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury), so his by-name has stuck. It is certain that he was a monk and that he traveled to the Kingdom of England and was a student of Anselm's for some time. Toward the end of his life, he was in the Scots Monastery, Regensburg, Bavaria.

Works

Among Honorius's works are:

• Elucidarium: a survey of Christian beliefs (written in England). It was translated frequently into vernacular.
• Sigillum sanctae Mariae: a set of lessons for how to celebrate the Assumption, together with a commentary on The Song of Songs, which he sees as being principally about Mary.
• Gemma animae: An allegorical view of the liturgy and its practices.
• A commentary on The Song of Songs, (preserved in a manuscript from c. 1170).¹
• A long commentary on the Psalms.
• Speculum Ecclesiae, a collection of sermons.
• Clavis physicae, the first part (1–315) is a summary of the first four books of (), the second part (316–529) is a reproduction of the fifth book.