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The Medieval Church · c. 1170–1200
The Letters
Peter of Blois · c. 1130–c. 1211
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What it is
Polished letters on court service, the misery of clerical careerism, the education of princes, and his own repeated failure to obtain the promotion he thought he deserved.
Why it lasted
Collected by their author as models of style and hugely popular, they are the best evidence of the twelfth-century clerical job market.
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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