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The Medieval Church · c. 1042
The Life of Romuald
Peter Damian · c. 1007–1072
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What it is
The founder of Camaldoli, who wandered Italy establishing hermitages and once tried to get himself martyred in Hungary without success.
Why it lasted
The manifesto of the eremitical revival that reshaped Western monasticism in the eleventh century.
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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