"'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their
barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of
their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French
monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at their enemies,
seeking supernatural assistance when no secular judge could help
them. In a long-awaited book written with elegance and erudition,
Lester Little undertakes the first full-length study of these
maledictions. . . . The book's focus is the way that religious
communities--especially the monks who followed Benedict's Rule and
hence were known by his name--used liturgical cursing to safeguard
their integrity and their possessions, against both laymen and
other ecclesiastics." --Journal of Social History
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