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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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Writing shortly after Aelred of Rievaulx died on 12 January 1167,
Walter Daniel, his secretary and fellow monk, has created the
picture of Aelred which endures to this day. We come to know a man
of 'charity and astonishing sanctity', an ailing abbot whose monks
sat chatting around his bed. Only in passing do we glimpse the
ambitious young steward at the court of King David of Scotland, the
ecclesiastical diplomat and political counselor who moved easily in
royal and episcopal circles, or the canny property manager who
guided his monasteries to prosperity. From Walter's pen we have a
gentle, loving, ascetic abbot who offered spiritual guidance to his
monks through conversation and to a wider audience through the
treatises he composed, and who died a holy death. The reaction the
Life provoked suggest that some contemporaries outside Rievaulx
entertained a different picture of the abbot of Rievaulx. Whether
motivated by simple dislike, by envy, or by dissatisfaction at a
hastily informal 'canonization', the critics stung the indignant
Walter to response. Perhaps they, like Walter, viewed as
irreconcilable and struggled to keep apart two worlds which Aelred
himself integrated and brought together.
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