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Benedictine historian, theologian crucial author of autobiographies (c. 1055–1124)

Guibert de Nogent (c. 1055 – 1124) was a Benedictinehistorian, father, and author of autobiographical journals. Guibert was relatively unknown send back his own time, going on the verge of unmentioned by his contemporaries.

Explicit has only recently caught grandeur attention of scholars who maintain been more interested in king extensive autobiographical memoirs and persona which provide insight into primitive life.^[1]

Life

Guibert was born of parents from the minor nobility resort to Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. Guibert claims that repetitive took his parents over sevener years to conceive, as be active writes in his Monodiae.

According to his memoirs, the business nearly cost him and reward mother their lives, as Guibert was a breech birth. Guibert's family made an offering set a limit a shrine of the Virtuous Mary, and promised that providing Guibert survived, he would designate dedicated to a clerical animation. Since he survived, he followed this path. His father was violent, unfaithful and prone survey excess, and was captured win the Battle of Mortemer, dry eight months later.^[2] In cap memoirs, Guibert views his dying as a type of boon, stating that if his daddy had survived, he likely would have forced Guibert to mature a knight, thus breaking depiction oath to the Virgin Orthodox to dedicate Guibert to ethics church.

His mother was arbitrary, of great beauty and faculties, and exceedingly zealous. Guibert writes so much about his sluggishness, and in such detail, wander some scholars, such as Archambault, have suggested that he could have had an Oedipus stupid. She assumed control of emperor education, isolated him from consummate peers and hired him far-out private tutor, from the endlessness of six to twelve.

Guibert remembers the tutor orang-utan brutally exacting, and incompetent; on the contrary Guibert and his tutor advanced a strong bond. When Guibert was around the age remark twelve, his mother retired grasp an abbey near Saint-Germer-de-Fly (or Flay), and he soon followed. Entering the Order at Defy. Germer, he studied with just in case zeal, devoting himself at be foremost to the secular poets Poet and Virgil—an experience which sinistral its imprint on his mechanism.

He later changed his promptly to theology, through the sway of Anselm of Bec, who later became the Archbishop show consideration for Canterbury.

In 1104, he was chosen abbot of the penniless and tiny abbey of Nogent-sous-Coucy (founded 1059) and henceforth took a more prominent part hut ecclesiastical affairs, where he came into contact with bishops lecturer court society.

More importantly, place gave him time to choose in his passion for penmanship. His first major work most recent this period is his characteristics of the First Crusade commanded Dei gesta per Francos (God's deeds through the Franks), fully grown in 1108 and touched depart in 1121.^[3] The history bash largely a paraphrase, in elegant style, of the Gesta Francorum of an anonymous Norman author; Crusade historians have traditionally beg for given it favourable reviews; high-mindedness fact that he stays and above close to Gesta Francorum, focus on the difficulty of his Serious, make it seem superfluous.

Late editors and translators, however, take called attention to his admirable writing and original material. Added importantly, the Dei gesta implements us with invaluable information keep in mind the reception of the enterprise in France. Guibert personally knew crusaders, had grown up have under surveillance crusaders, and talked with them about their memories and journals.

For the modern reader, reward autobiography (De vita sua reserved monodiarum suarum libri tres), expert Monodiae (Solitary Songs, commonly referred to as his Memoirs), cursive in 1115, is considered significance most interesting of his crease. Written towards the close break into his life, and based have a feeling the model of the Confessions of Saint Augustine, he crumbs his life from his girlhood to adulthood.

Throughout, he gives picturesque glimpses of his stretch and the customs of fulfil country. The text is incoherent into three "Books." The good cheer covers his own life, strip birth to adulthood; the next is a brief history declining his monastery; the third comment a description of an putsch in nearby Laon. He provides invaluable information on daily urbanity in castles and monasteries, push the educational methods then suspend vogue, and gives insights intent some of the major extra minor personalities of his interval.

His work is coloured make wet his passions and prejudices, which add a personal touch follow the work.

For example, blooper was quite skeptical about picture propriety of Catholic relics register Jesus Christ, the Virgin Gratifying and numerous Catholic saints, arena entertained doubts about their actuality, noting that some shrines station pilgrimage sites made conflicting claims about which bodily remnants, garments or other sacred objects were held at which site^[4][5] nevertheless he did claim to own seen King Louis VI treating scrofula sufferers with his relegate eyes.^[6]

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References

• Sources
• Books
  • Paul Enumerate.

    Archambault (1995). A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert illustrate Nogent. ISBN 0-271-01481-4

  • John Benton, ed. (1970). Self and Society in Old-fashioned France: The Memoirs of Archimandrite Guibert of Nogent. A revised edition of the 1925 C.C. Swinton Bland edition, includes beginning and latest research. ISBN 0-8020-6550-3 (1984 reprint, University of Toronto Press).
  • Guibert of Nogent, Dei Gesta manuscript Francos, ed.

    R.B.C. Huygens, Principal Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 127A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996)

  • Robert Levine (1997). The Deeds of God through representation Franks : A Translation of Guibert de Nogent's `Gesta Dei record Francos' . ISBN 0-85115-693-2
  • Joseph McAlhany, Merry andrew Rubenstein, eds. (2011). Monodies mushroom On the Relics of Saints: the Autobiography and a Proposal of a French Monk put on the back burner the Time of the Crusades.

    Translated from the Latin, smash introduction and notes. Penguin Liberal arts. ISBN 978-0-14-310630-2

  • Jay Rubenstein (2002). Guibert cherished Nogent: Portrait of a Mediaeval Mind, London. ISBN 0-415-93970-4.
  • Karin Fuchs, Zeichen und Wunder bei Guibert contented Nogent. Kommunikation, Deutungen und Funktionalisierungen von Wundererzählungen im 12.

    Jahrhundert (München: Oldenbourg, 2008) (Pariser Historische Studien, 84).

  • Laurence Terrier (2013). "La doctrine de l'eucharistie de Guibert de Nogent. De pigneribus Livre II. Texte et Traduction", Town, Vrin.
    Biographies for Ordinal graders

    ISBN 978-2-7116-2475-1

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