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The Medieval Church · c. 1063–1070
The Book of His Temptations
Otloh of Sankt Emmeram · c. 1010–c. 1070
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What it is
A monk's record of his own doubts — whether scripture is true, whether God exists at all — and the visions and reasoning by which he worked through them.
Why it lasted
One of the very few medieval accounts of religious doubt described from the inside rather than condemned from outside.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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