Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the Tenth Century

by Barbara H. Rosenwein

"The rhinoceros, that is, any powerful man, is bound with a thong so that he may crush the clods of the valleys, that is, the oppressors of the humble."--Odo of Cluny, Vita Geraldi i.8

To the second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Saint Odo, tenth-century Europe was a world filled with violent men oppressing at whim the poor and the powerless. As royal authority waned, local magnates, unrestrained by any authority, divine or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278305
• ISBN13: 9780812278309
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"