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Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the Tenth Century (The Middle Ages)
Rhinoceros Bound Cluny in the Tenth Century - The Middle Ages
Author: Barbara Rosenwein
"The rhinoceros, that is, any powerful man, is bound with a thong so that he may crush the clods of the valleys, that is, the oppressors of the humble."—Odo of Cluny, Vita Geraldi i.8 — To the second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Saint Odo, tenth-century Europe was a world filled with violent men oppressing at whim the po...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812278309
ISBN-10: 0812278305
Publication Date: 3/29/1976
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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