Self and society in Medieval France
Subtitle: the memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent (1064?-c. 1125)
By: edited with an introd. and notes by John F. Benton. The translation of C. C. Swinton Bland rev. by the editor.
Contributors: Benton, John F., ed.
Series: Harper torchbooks, 1471
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy, 1053-ca. 1124.; Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy, 1053-ca. 1124.; Monasticism and religious orders -- France -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Abbots -- France -- Biography.; France -- Social life and customs -- To 1328.
Description: The author gives a unique picture of life and northwestern France at the turn of the twelfth century. He shows not only the glories but also the tensions of this transitional age, which gave birth to the reform of the Church, to new intellectual and spiritual movements, and to far-reaching social and economic developments, but which at the same time saw growing resistance to the established authority of the Church and feudal aristocracy, the turbulence of the rising urban classes, and the first stirrings of doubt with regard to many traditional beliefs. [Back cover].
Notes: Bibliography: p. 242-244.
Translation of De vita sua.