ANGELOMUS OF LUXEUIL. — Benedictine exegete, one of the best of the 9th century, d. c. 855. He was trained under a certain Mellinus (PL 115, 108) and temporarily taught at the palace school of Emperor Lothair. Returning to his monastery of Luxeuil, he devoted himself entirely to biblical study. Surviving works of his (PL 115, 107-628) include: Commentarius in Genesin; Enarrationes in libros Regum; Enarrationes in Cantica Canticorum (dedicated to Lothair); his commentary on the four Gospels, which he mentions (ibid., 108), is lost.
He adopted the then not unusual method of compilation or “Stromata”: he drew from written tradition (Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore, Bede, Rabanus Maurus), now excerpting, now summarizing their meaning; he included explanations received from oral tradition (Mellinus) and “de ea in tomis penes nos invenire non potui” (ibid., 110). Though he knew the sevenfold interpretation of Holy Scripture (ibid., 245-46), he preferred to expound Genesis and Kings “iuxu iugitatem triplicis divisionis,” i.e., in historical, allegorical, and moral senses (ibid., 110, 246); in the Song of Songs, however, “nihil... historialiter requiras, sed flores allegoriam cum morali intellectu investiges” (ibid., 554).