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Monodies and on the relics of saints: the autobiography and a manifesto of a french monk from thetime of the crusades

By Jay , Nogent , Guibert of;Rubenstein

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN
9781101552704, 1101552700
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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691 kB (707638 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious;BIOGRAPHY & A

Description

The first Western autobiography since Augustine's Confessions, the Monodies is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval society. As Guibert of Nogent intimately recounts his early years, monastic life, and the bloody uprising at Laon in 1112, we witness a world-and a mind-populated by royals, heretics, nuns, witches, and devils, and come to understand just how fervently he was preoccupied with sin, sexuality, the afterlife, and the dark arts. Exotic, disquieting, and illuminating, the Monodies is a work in which the dreams, fears, and superstitions of one man illuminate the psychology of an entire people. It is joined in this volume by On the Relics of Saints, a theological manifesto that has never appeared in English until now.

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