Medievalists.net » Guibert de Nogent http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Satiric Vulgarity in Guibert de Nogent’s Gesta Dei per Francos http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/satiric-vulgarity-guibert-de-nogents-gesta-dei-per-francos/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/satiric-vulgarity-guibert-de-nogents-gesta-dei-per-francos/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:02:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56359 Attempts to characterize Guibert de Nogent (1053-1121) generally focus upon his Autobiography, not on his history of the First Crusade.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/satiric-vulgarity-guibert-de-nogents-gesta-dei-per-francos/feed/ 0 Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/23/temptation-and-redemption-a-monastic-life-in-stone/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/23/temptation-and-redemption-a-monastic-life-in-stone/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:45:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30414 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.

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