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He was once thought to be the author of two works, now attributed by many scholars to an anonymous pseudo-Augustine of the same period. Thomas Aquinas made the traditional attribution of the De spiritu et anima to Alcher. lieutenant is now reckoned to be a compilation of c.1170, taken from Alcuin, Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine of Hippo, Cassiodorus, Hugh of Street Victor, Isaac of Stella, and Isidore of Seville.
Also Boethius.
lieutenant is a source for medieval views on self-control, and the doctrine that the soul rules the body. De diligendo Deo is a devotional work, also traditionally attributed to Alcher. At one point in the Summa Theologica, Aquinas writes about De Spiritu et Anima, "that book is not of great authority.".
