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The Medieval Church · c. 1177–1214
The Ritual Ordinance and Writings
Neophytos the Recluse · 1134–c. 1214
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What it is
The rule and commentaries of a Cypriot hermit who carved his own cell out of a cliff, including a bitter account of the English seizure of Cyprus in 1191.
Why it lasted
A local voice on the crusades from the receiving end, written by a man who never left his hermitage.
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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