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Robert of Arbrissel - Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Robert of Arbrissel - Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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This book tells the fascinating story of Robert of Arbrissel (ca.
1045-1116). Robert was a parish priest, longtime student, reformer,
hermit, wandering preacher, and, most famously, founder of the
abbey of Fontevraud. There men and women joined together in a
monastic life organized so that women ruled men and men served
women, according to the founder's plan. As Jacques Dalarun shows in
this biography, however, Fontevraud was for Robert only one
stopping point in a restless and lifelong journey in search of
salvation that took place in roads, forests, towns, and monasteries
across France. Hard as the travel was, the spiritual search was
more agonizing still. Consumed with a sense of his own sinfulness,
sexual and otherwise, Robert lived out penance however he could.
The many women who gathered in his wake became partners in his
religious quest, and his frequent contact with them was,
paradoxically, a centerpiece of his penitential regime. At
Fontevraud, he encouraged others to adopt the practice of intense
contact with and indeed subservience to women. This reversal of the
standard gender hierarchy in the midst of the ongoing battle with
sexual temptation has baffled and even enraged observers during
Robert's lifetime and ever since. Vividly narrating the course of
Robert's life and his relationships with others along the way, the
author hews closely to medieval sources, in particular two letters
to Robert critical of his nonconformity and his relations with
women, along with two admiring accounts written within a few years
of his death. This translation by Bruce L. Venarde preserves the
novelistic character of the original while updating and augmenting
it with full notes, a bibliography, and an introduction both to the
book and to scholarly interpretations of Robert in the past two
decades. A new preface by Jacques Dalarun completes the reworking
of the first full-length biography of Robert of Arbrissel available
in English.
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