Author : Guibert of Nogent
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141389387
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Monodies and on the Relics of Saints by : Guibert of Nogent
Download or read book Monodies and on the Relics of Saints written by Guibert of Nogent and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.