Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1080–c. 1140)

Abstract

Honorius Augustodunensis was an influential twelfth-century author of polemical, liturgical, exegetical, and cosmological texts. He began his career in England in the circle of Anselm of Canterbury and then moved to Germany, where he produced the bulk of his output during the reign of emperor Henry V. Among his thirty or so works, the doctrinal treatise Elucidarium, a master–student dialogue, and Imago mundi, an encyclopaedia, are the focus of this article because they achieved wide medieval distribution both in Latin and in vernacular translation.