Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from theTime of the Crusades-Quality Guarantee

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The first Western autobiography since Augustine’sConfessions, the Monodies is set against the backdrop ofthe First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval Guibert of Nogent intimately recounts his early years, monasticlife, and the bloody uprising at Laon in 1112, we witness a world-and amind-populated by royals, heretics, nuns, witches, and devils, and cometo understand just how fervently he was preoccupied with sin,sexuality, the afterlife, and the dark arts. Exotic, disquieting, andilluminating, the Monodies is a work in which the dreams, fears,and superstitions of one man illuminate the psychology of an entirepeople. 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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