Fortune and Misfortune At Saint Gall

The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV's Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall chronicles the 880s to 972, near the end of the famous Swiss monastery's two-century-long golden age, bearing witness to the struggles of the tenth-century church reform movement. This volume publishes the Latin text alongside its first complete English translation.

About the author

Emily Albu is Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of California, Davis.Natalia Lozovsky is an independent scholar.

Summary

The eleventh-century monk Ekkehard IV’s Fortune and Misfortune at Saint Gall chronicles the 880s to 972, near the end of the famous Swiss monastery’s two-century-long golden age, bearing witness to the struggles of the tenth-century church reform movement. This volume publishes the Latin text alongside its first complete English translation.

Product details

• Authors: Ekkehard IV, IV Ekkehard IV, Ekkehard Iv
• Assisted by: Emily Albu (Translation), Albu Emily (Translation), Natalia Lozovsky (Translation), Lozovsky Natalia (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780674251465
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25146-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (HUP) CONTINS TO- [e-mail]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Switzerland, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Christianity, Medieval History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, 9th century, c 800 to c 899, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism