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Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation (Liber Confortatorius)
Roger Hargreaves
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Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk Goscelin to a protegee and personal friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the tradition of St Jerome's letters of spiritual guidance to women, and anticipates medieval advice literature for anchoresses. As a compendious treatise, it has much to tell us about the intellectual interests and preoccupations of religious people in the late eleventh century. As a personal document, it allows a fascinating and uncommonly intimate insight into the psychology of religious ... Read more
Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk Goscelin to a protegee and personal friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the tradition of St Jerome's letters of spiritual guidance to women, and anticipates medieval advice literature for anchoresses. As a compendious treatise, it has much to tell us about the intellectual interests and preoccupations of religious people in the late eleventh century. As a personal document, it allows a fascinating and uncommonly intimate insight into the psychology of religious ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842941
SKU
V9781843842941
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Reviews for Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation (Liber Confortatorius)
Provides ambitious students of the Middle Ages with a rare opportunity to experience in English the complex, rich, and often impenetrable world of the monastic imagination, as dazzling in what it reveals as it is frustrating for what it conceals. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW