Tag: Guibert de Nogent

Uncertainty over Guibert’s reasons for writing his autobiography, the De vita sua, has prompted attempts at psycho-historical analyses of his personality.

by Medievalists.net February 21, 2015

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Satiric Vulgarity in Guibert de Nogent’s Gesta Dei per Francos

Attempts to characterize Guibert de Nogent (1053-1121) generally focus upon his Autobiography, not on his history of the First Crusade.

by Sandra Alvarez March 23, 2012

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Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone

The monks who wrote the legend of Eugenia and those of the other transvestite women/monks were explicitly including a female in an all male monastic milieu. Women, as a rule, were not allowed in male monastic enclosures; the Rule at Cluny strictly forbade any women to enter the grounds.