Fountains Abbey; the story of a mediaeval monastery

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READER— Enunciated clearly, was at ease speaking Latin, allowed the listener to be at ease to the point that the actual text (and its context) could be absorbed and considered in peace. TEXT— Really interesting and full of curious details about life as lived in such a time of great transitions. SOBERING PERSPECTIVE— This book was published around 1904; to consider the hopeful note of the author that more volumes of works, say from “ L through M” (and beyond) of some extended work… might yet certainly turn up when the next old noble dies and passes his library on… well, how was he to guess that the Great War was only ten years ahead, and that the destruction and looting done at the end of medieval times, with calculation, as monasteries were broken up… was dwarfed by the scale of the purposeful (and purposeless) destruction of that World War to come. Knowledge that a second whirlwind of war was yet to follow the first one left me stunned as I thought about those hopes of this book’s author. We all lose. But LibriVox is helping to retrieve from the shadows works which lend depth to all our shared struggles to stay alive, to do it with grace and kindness, and to learn from the thoughts and experiences of those whose voices now reach us only through the written word. Thank you for adding a rich resource to the long discussion through the Ages of what it is to Be.