Dear Christopher,
To preach and to be a hermit were not mutually exclusive. For
further information see George Ferzoco, "Preaching by Italian Hermits,"
in C. Muessig, ed., *Medieval Monastic Preaching*, Brill's Studies in
Intellectual History 90 (Brill, 1998), pp. 145-159.
(Please excuse the self-promotion!)
All the best,
Carolyn
On 30 Apr 1999, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >Bernard of Tiron, abbot (1117): One of the all time great wandering
> preachers.
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> Live and learn, I guess.
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> I thought he was a hermit.
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> (And, I recently came across a reference *somewhere* that identified
> Tiron as =La Trappe. Too lazy and pressed for pre-k'zoo time to check this
> out, can anyone confirm that it ain't true? Tiron being a
> Benedictine house in the diocese of Chartres, almost in So. Normandy.)
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