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Jay Rubenstein
Guibert of Nogent [EPUB ebook]
Portrait of a Medieval Mind

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

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Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9781134721771 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2689458 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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