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The Medieval Church · c. 1030–1046
Five Books of Histories
Rodulfus Glaber · c. 985–c. 1047
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What it is
A restless monk's account of the years around the millennium — famines, portents, relic discoveries, heretics burned at Orléans, and the world putting on a white mantle of churches.
Why it lasted
The source of nearly every modern image of the year 1000, written by an unreliable narrator who was expelled from several monasteries.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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