"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"

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Prof. Rubenstein is a historian of medieval intellectual and cultural life in Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries. He is the author of "Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind" and co-editor of "Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200," among other works. Prof. Rubenstein received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007. In his 2010 Franke Lecture, Rubenstein discusses the eleventh-century monk and autobiographer, Guibert de Nogent, and works to place him in the particular intellectual and built environments of his time and location, though only fragmentary evidence from these environments survive.

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