“…not as history, but…” by Elizabeth Freeman

“…Aelred wrote all these works while he was abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, and the article suggests that Aelred’s experiences and responsibilities as abbot gave him both the skills to combine many literary genres – vita, genealogy, lament, relatio, translatio, exemplum, sermon, letter – when writing about the past as well as the desire to combine such genres so as to provide his readers with models of hope, and occasionally stern advice, from the past to use in the future.…”
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Le travail de Gaignières sur les archives du Val Notre-Dame. Une porte d’entrée sur un chartrier bien conservé by Marlène Helias-Baron

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