Theobald of Langres (
fl. late 12th century) was a
scholastic teacher and author, probably a lay schoolmaster, although he has also been identified as a
Cistercian
The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...
. He elaborated and expanded on the work of
William of Auberive William of Auberive (french: Guillaume d'Auberive) was a Cistercian monk and numerologist who served as the abbot of from 1165 until 1186.Uta-Renate Blumenthal, "Cardinal Albinus of Albano and the ''Digesta pauperis scolaris Albini'': Ms. Ottob. la ...
and
Geoffrey of Auxerre Geoffrey of Clairvaux, or Geoffrey of Auxerre, was the secretary and biographer of Bernard of Clairvaux and later abbot of a number of monasteries in the Cistercian tradition.
Life
He was born between the years 1115 and 1120, at Auxerre. At an ea ...
, crafting a more systematic theory of
numerical symbolism. He left behind one treatise on the subject, ''De quatuor modis quibus significationes numerorum aperiuntur'', written in a dry style. It has been edited critically by René Delaflie (1978) and Hanne Lange (1979). A bit of Theobald's advice is:
When you want to sacramentize a number .e., "make it mean" you should unfold the aforesaid ways of sacramentizing, and turn them over in your mind, because in such frequent consideration, you may perhaps find what you are looking for, lying hidden.
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12th-century French writers
12th-century Latin writers