The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV’s Fortune and Misfortune at
Saint Gall, part of the chronicles of the famous Swiss abbey, is a
treasure trove of medieval monastic life. Saint Gall’s records
span its humble beginnings in the early seventh century to the late
Middle Ages, with Ekkehard’s contribution covering the 880s to
972, near the end of the monastery’s two-century-long golden age.
Its unforgettable tales, sometimes at odds with the historical
record, contain sharp flashes of Ekkehard’s signature
humor—when, for instance, a spying abbot from a neighboring
monastery is caught hiding in the latrine. Ekkehard also shows how
the abbey’s role as a spiritual haven could be compromised by
worldly ties, including close associations with the powerful
Carolingian and Ottonian courts. He bears witness to the struggles
of the tenth-century church reform movement, when Emperor Otto I
dispatched investigators to uncover Saint Gall’s deviations from
the Rule of Saint Benedict. This volume publishes the Latin text
alongside its first complete English translation.
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