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The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV’s Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall chronicles the 880s to 972, near the end of the famous Swiss monastery’s two-century-long golden age, bearing witness to the struggles of the tenth-century church reform movement. This volume publishes the Latin text alongside its first complete English translation.

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Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall

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    A Hardback by Ekkehard IV, IV, Emily Albu, Natalia Lozovsky

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 11 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9780674251465
      978-0674251465
      ISBN-10 0674251466
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages Religious communities and monasticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV’s Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall chronicles the 880s to 972, near the end of the famous Swiss monastery’s two-century-long golden age, bearing witness to the struggles of the tenth-century church reform movement. This volume publishes the Latin text alongside its first complete English translation.

      Trade Review
      Make[s] this text and its author accessible to a new generation of scholars. -- Rutger Kramer * Speculum *

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