The Common Bond of Aristocratic Masculinity: Monks, Secular Men and St. Gerald of Aurillac
Andrew Romig
Miracle stories had been swirling throughout the densely forested hills south of Loire for a decade when, sometime during early 920s, Abbot Aymo St. Martial called upon his esteemed friend, Odo Cluny, to discern whether they might actually be true. Like most tales their kind, spoke spontaneous healings—healings blindness in particular, but also deafness, paralysis and demonic possession. They told man who lived life exemplary love devotion toward fellow neighbors Christian God. Yet familiar as have seemed form, there was something decidedly troubling about them content. needed Odo’s learning gravitas investigate because alleged holy at stories’ center not formal service God, instead wealthy powerful layperson.1 He Count Gerald Aurillac, warlord secular judge fragmented political world Carolingian late ninth tenth century, died old age year 909.2KeywordsNinth CenturyCommon BondSecular WorldChristian LifeSpiritual AdvisorThese keywords were added by machine authors. This process is experimental may updated algorithm improves.
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