The legacy of the school of Auxerre: glossed Bibles, school rhetoric, and the Universal Gilbert

this article analyzes the influence exerted by gilbert d'auxerre's commentary on the lamentations of jeremiah in shaping the ordinary gloss. the author points out that gilbert's work is an important link in the transmission and reinterpretation of the carolingian exegetic tradition to the following centuries, and reminds us at the same time that gilbert, being one of the essential links between monastic and scholastic theology, between the culture of the carolingian renaissance and scholasticism, must not be ignored.