The Life of Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester by Rodney Thomson
The Life of Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester by Rodney Thomson
English | 1977 | ISBN: 0888444567 | 97 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | 1977 | ISBN: 0888444567 | 97 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
It was from an unlikely area, the rough and provincial Normandy of the mid-eleventh century, that there sprang one of the principal impulses towards the transformation and reinvigoration of monastic life in the West. Its single focus at first was the abbey of Bec, founded by the humble layman Herluin; but after the conquest of England Bee's lustre was shared with Canterbury and a handful of other English centres populated and ruled by former monks of the Norman house.