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Monodies and On the Relics of Saints
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Penguin Random House
| Author:
OF NOGENT, GUIBERT
| Language:
English
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Paperback
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Penguin Random House
Author:
OF NOGENT, GUIBERT
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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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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.
About Author
Guibert of Nogent (c. 16-c. 1125) was a French monk who has emerged as one of the most original thinkers of the twelfth century. Joseph McAlhany is a professor of classics and great ideas at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Jay Rubenstein, a MacArthur Fellow and Rhodes scholar, is a professor of history and the director of the Center for the Premodern World at the University of Southern California and the author of the first comprehensive study of Guibert's life and thought in over a century.
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