Eloi’s Books and Their Bookcase
Mary A. Rouse|Richard H. Rouse
Audoin’s seventh-century Life of St. Eloi tells us a great deal about the place books and reading in Merovingian monastic spirituality. The importance to Eloi’s own personal style asceticism can scarcely be overemphasized, his providing foundations is characteristic. His friend biographer Audoin affords an intimate glimpse into saint’s bedroom-study, where he spent nights alternately praying reading, consulting on revolving bookcase built perhaps by hands.
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