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| | Powell's Books - Harvard Historical Studies #117: Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, ... |
 | | This provides the cornerstone of Landes's challenging methodology whereby he calibrates shifts in Ademar's literary identity--as copyist, historian, liturgist, and mythographer--against a detailed biographical reconstructionwhich is in turn interwoven with the religious, social, and political currents affecting the 'millennial generation'. |
 | | On August 3, 1029, Ademar of Chabannes suffered a humiliating defeat when his plans for a triumphal procession of the relics of St. Martial and the chanting of his new liturgy in Martial's honor turned into a fiasco. |
 | | And because Ademar was tortured and flawed, we have, as Landes also points out in a wonderful phrase, 'the autograph record of a man going mad.' Uncommon enough for any period, this is a motherlode for the middle ages. |
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