Head, Thomas. Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800–1200.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Patlagean, Evelyne, and Pierre Riché, eds. Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés: IVe-XIIe siècles.
Actes du Colloque organisé a Nanterre et à Paris, 2–5 mai 1979. Paris: Études Augustiniennes,
1981.
Poulin, Joseph-Claude. L’idéal de sainteté dans l’Aquitaine carolingienne d’après les sources
hagiographiques (750–950). Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1975.
Roisin, Simone. L’hagiographie cistercienne dans le diocèse de Liège au XIIIe siècle. Louvain:
Bibliothèque de l’Université, 1947.
Stancliffe, Clare. Saint Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in Sulpicius Severus.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1983.
Vauchez, André. La sainteté en occident aux derniers siècles du moyen âge d’après les procès de
canonisation et les documents hagiographiques. Rome: École Française de Rome, 1981.
Vies des saints et des bienheureux, selon l’ordre du calendrier: avec l’historique des fêtes, par les
révérends péres bénédictins de Paris. 13 vols. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1935–59.
Weinstein, Donald, and Rudolph Bell. Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Latin Christendom,
1000–1700. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
HAIMO OF AUXERRE
(fl. ca. 840–60). Carolingian exegete of the school of the Benedictine house of Saint-
Germain at Auxerre, Haimo was the author of widely read commentaries on the Song of
Songs, Revelation, and the Minor Prophets, as well as of many sermons. Commentaries
on the Pauline Epistles attributed to Alcuin’s pupil Haimo of Halberstadt may also be his.
Haimo studied with the Irish grammarian Murethach and was for a time the abbot of the
monastery of Sasceium. He brought Carolingian biblical commentary to its most
successful and influential point; his skillfully woven composite method was passed on
through his pupil Heiric to Remigius of Auxerre. Commentaries on some books of the
Bible, notably Genesis, are attributed to both Haimo and Remigius. The writings of
Haimo of Auxerre published in the Patrologia Latina appear under the name of Haimo of
Halberstadt. Haimo’s biblical interpretation is only now receiving the scholarly attention
it deserves.
E.Ann Matter
[See also: AUXERRE; BIBLE, CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF; REMIGIUS
OF AUXERRE]
Haimo of Auxerre. Opera. PL 117–18.
——. Les dix-sept homélies de Haimon, ed. Karl Storchenegger. Zurich: Juris, 1973.
Contreni, John J. “Haimo of Auxerre, Abbot of Sasceium (Cessyles-Bois), and a New Sermon on 1
John V, 4–10.” Revue bénédictine 85(1975):303–20.
——“The Biblical Glosses of Haimo of Auxerre and John Scottus Eriugena.” Speculum
51(1976):412–34.
Matter, E.Ann. “Exegesis and Christian Education: The Carolingian Model.” In Schools of Thought
in the Christian Tradition, ed. Patrick Henry. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984, pp. 90–105.
Quadri, Riccardo. “Aimone de Auxerre alla luce dei Collectanea di Heiric di Auxerre.” Italia
medioevale e umanistica 6 (1963):1–48.
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