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GUIBERT (1053–1124)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUIBERT (1053–1124) , of Nogent, historian and theologian, was See also:born of See also:noble parents at Clermont-en-Beauvoisis, and dedicated from See also:infancy to the See also:church. He received his See also:early See also:education at the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of See also:Flavigny (Flaviacum) or St Germer, where he studied with See also:great zeal, devoting himself at first to the See also:secular poets, an experience which See also:left its imprint on his See also:works; later changing to See also:theology, through the See also:influence of See also:Anselm of See also:Bee, afterwards of See also:Canterbury. In 1104, he was chosen to be See also:head of the abbey of Notre See also:Dame de Nogent and henceforth took a prominent See also:part in ecclesiastical affairs. His autobiography (De vita sua, sive monodiarum), written towards the See also:close of his See also:life, gives many picturesque glimpses of his See also:time and the customs of his See also:country. The description of the See also:commune of See also:Laon is an See also:historical document of the first See also:order. The same See also:local See also:colour lends See also:charm to his See also:history of the first crusade (Gesta Dei per Francos) written about 11 ro. But the history is largely a See also:paraphrase, in ornate See also:style, of the Gesta Francorum of an See also:anonymous See also:Norman author (see See also:CRUSADES); and when he comes to the end of his authority, he allows his See also:book to degenerate into an undigested heap of notes and anecdotes. At the same time his high See also:birth and his position in the church give his See also:work an occasional value.

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