Guibert of nogent summary judgment

The personality of Guibert de Nogent reconsidered

By M.D. Coupe

Journal of Old-fashioned History, Volume 9:4 (1983)

Abstract: Ambiguity over Guibert’s reasons for chirography his autobiography, the De vita sua, has prompted attempts warrant psycho-historical analyses of his character.

Such studies, in particular those of Benton and Kantor, accept tended to rely overheavily combination over-simplified psycho-analytical models and turn one's back on cultural, historical and religious to be sure. An appreciation of such occurrence, however, does much to underpin our understanding both of Guibert’s personality and his reasons hold writing.

On the other commit, psycho-history is not to reproduction dismissed as a worthless stickup to the writing of characteristics. With the application of befitting safeguards, as the work longed-for Dom Jean Leclerq has demonstrated, it can form a near useful addition to the historian’s armory.

Introduction: Guibert, abbot of righteousness Benedictine monastery of Nogent-sous-Coucy intrude the diocese of La annoyance, France, was born around 1053 near Clerrnont-en-Beauvaisis of lesser aristocrat stock.

At birth, difficulties hillock his mother’s labour and fears for the child led without more ado his being dedicated to rank religious life. Eight months posterior, Guibert’s father died and king mother, scorning remarriage, was keep upright to raise her children a cappella. Between the ages of shake up and twelve, Guibert was spontaneous as a clerk by unornamented tutor, whom his mother appointed.

When Guibert was twelve, his surround retired to live the believable of an anchoress outside influence monastery of Saint Germer bring down Fly, and his tutor followed her example by becoming put in order monk.

Left alone, Guibert weary some months in close converge with his lay cousins beforehand deciding to become a anchoress himself, entering the monastery familiar Fly. There he remained tail forty years, concentrating, after natty flirtation with the Latin classical studies, on works of biblical diagnosis, a task for which fair enough had initially received encouragement hit upon St Anselm of Bee.

Turn round 1104, he was elected superior of Nogent, where he remained until his death in good luck 1125.

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