Behold! My latest video on misbehaving medieval monks.
I worked very hard on this video and the illustrations took me FOREVER, but I am pleased with it.
Sources:
Primary Sources
Benedict of Nursia, translator, Terrence G. Kardong, OSB. Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary. Liturgical Press, 1996. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46804.
Giraldus, Cambrensis, H. E. Butler, C.H. Williams, and John Gillingham. The Autobiography of Gerald of Wales. Jonathan Cape, 1937. https://archive.org/details/TheAutobiographyOfGiraldus/page/n1/mode/2up
Nelson, Janet L., and Publisher Manchester University Press. "The Annals of St-Bertin : Ninth-Century Histories, Volume 1." In The Annals of St-Bertin : Ninth-Century Histories, Volume 1, MMSO edition. Manchester University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526112729.
Odo Rigaldus, Sydney M Brown, Jeremiah Francis O'Sullivan, and American Council of Learned Societies. The Register of Eudes of Rouen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.
Secondary Sources
Kerr, Julie. Life in the Medieval Cloister. 1st ed. Edited by Julie Kerr. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009.
Szabo, Felix. "Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios." In Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cj4.8.
Websites I used to double check location and if the person I was talking about was in fact the person I thought I was talking about (there are so many overlapping names in medieval Europe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Saint_Bertin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_II_of_Aquitaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montebourg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuirass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_of_Wales#List_of_works