Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind (Hardcover)

Jay Rubenstein
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
 9780415939706
0-415-93970-4

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of the.

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twelfth-century renaissance, the monastic mindset, the invention of psychological thought, the birth of the university, and the historiography of the Crusades.