Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages
Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages
by Jacques Dalarun edited and translated by Bruce L. Venarde
Catholic University of America Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-8132-1439-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1599-0 Library of Congress Classification BX4705.R567D35 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 271.79
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book tells the fascinating story of Robert of Arbrissel (ca. 1045-1116). Robert was a parish priest, longtime student, reformer, hermit, wandering preacher, and, most famously, founder of the abbey of Fontevraud
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Twenty Years After : A New Preface by Jacques Dalarun...............iii
Robert of Arbrissel and His Historians: An Introduction by Bruce L. Venarde.....xiii
Abbreviations................................xxvii
Map..................................xxviii
1. To the sources....................................................................1
2. Flesh and the Word............................12
3. Trial by fire...............................50
4. Faces................................97
5. The seventh degree of humility.......................144
6. The disciple he loved..............................199
Bibliography................................209
Translator's Note and Acknowledgements...................224