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

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    Publisher: Harvard University Press
    Publication Date: 11/05/2021
    ISBN13: 9780674251465, 978-0674251465
    ISBN10: 0674251466
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    European history: medieval period, middle ages Religious communities and monasticism

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    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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