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Guibert of Nogent: Brooding on GodGuibert of Nogent was a flawed abbot in northern France, who found it difficult to adapt to the changes wrought by the 12th-century Renaissance. Yet his newly translated writings are among the first works in the West to examine man’s inner life, says Charles Freeman. |
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Once upon a time... nostalgia for the imagined medieval harmony of the arts, religion and society was a powerful impetus for the aesthetic revival in these areas in Victorian England. |
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