Self and Society in Medieval France
The Memoirs of Abbot Guilbert of Nogent

John F. Benton (Edited by)

9780802065506

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 1984

260 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.42 kg

In its original printing, this edition of the Autobiography was greeted in Saturday Review as ‘a treasure-house of information on education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns … also delightful reading with its mingling of scholarship and superstition, its stories of necromancy and devils, its other-worldliness warring with human weakness.‘