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The Letters of Peter Damian 1-30 - The Fathers of the Chuch (Hardcover)
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The Letters of Peter Damian 1-30 - The Fathers of the Chuch (Hardcover)
Series: Mediaeval Continuation
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Peter Damian (1007-1072), an eleventh-century monk and man of
letters, left a large and significant body of correspondence. Over
one hundred and eighty letters have been preserved, principally
from Damian's own monastery of Fonte Avellana. Ranging in length
from short memoranda to longer monographs, the letters provide a
contemporary account of many of the controversies of the eleventh
century: purgatory, the Eucharist, clerical marriage and celibacy,
immorality, and others. Peter Damian, or ""Peter the Sinner"" as he
often referred to himself, was one of the most learned men of his
day, and his letters are filled with both erudition and zeal for
reform. This first volume contains the first thirty letters, and
covers the period before 1049. Here we see Peter Damian as an
untiring preacher and uncompromising reformer, both of the monastic
world and of the church at large. He attacks clerical laxity and
monastic decadence in letter after letter. The first letter in the
collection is of particular interest, containing a theological
consideration of the Christian position against the Jews. Other
important letters in this first volume are Damian's allegorical
interpretation of the Divine Office, his letters on the Last Days
and the Judgment, on canonical and legal points (such as the
prohibited degrees of consanguinity in marriage), and on liturgical
matters (particularly in monastic observance).
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