Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.

Canadian Journal of History | August 1, 1999| | Copyright

Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities, by Lutz Kaelber. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. viii, 278 pp. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper) U.S.

In a chronicle written around 1030 a Cluniac monk called Ralph the Bald recorded several episodes of heresy at the turn of the millennium. One involved Vilgard of Ravenna, a grammarian so affected by his reading of the classical poets that "he began arrogantly to preach against the holy faith, asserting that the sayings of the poets should be believed in ...

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