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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Authors
Some Notes on Language
Some Notes on Verse
I The Bible
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II The Christian Life
St Jerome
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St Augustine
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St Benedict
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St Anselm
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St Bernard
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The Papacy
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Virtue and Vice
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The Four Last Things
The Death of Gerard (1138)
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III History and Biography
The Venerable Bede
The Conversion of Northumbria
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The Synod of Whitby (664)
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William Rufus (1087-1100)
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The First Crusade
The Council of Clermont (November 1095)
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Postscript
Abbot Samson
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IV The World of Learning
Spoiling the Egyptians
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The Latin Lesson
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A Defence of the Classics
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Trouble at Oxford, 1238
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In Praise of Books
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Petrarch
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To M. Tullius Cicero, 16 June 1345
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V Wine, Women and Song
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VI Satire and Complaint
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The Gospel according to the Mark of Silver
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VII Ghosts and Marvels
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Buried Treasure
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Commentary
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