Abbey of St Victor ; Allegory ; Augustinians ; EnglishVictorines ; France ; History of cartography ; Hugh of St Victor ; Lawrence of Westminster ; Middle Ages ; Twelfth Century ; United Kingdom ; biblical exegesis ; mappamundi ; medieval libraries
copies of books with mappaemundi by Hugh and/or of Peter Comestor's Hugonian Historia scholastica. I then map the presence of Victorine canons in English religious institutions as well as the communications between a selection of these institutions and St
Hugh's theography—his theological cartography—reached England from the Royal Abbey and School of St Victor in Paris. To do this I outline Hugh's image-based teaching and major theographical works, and then set out which English monastic libraries had