John Capgrave's Lives of St. Augustine and St. Gilbert of Sempringham, and a Sermon (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from John Capgrave's Lives of St. Augustine and St. Gilbert of Sempringham, and a Sermon But let us not forget that in many of these things he was but Of his time. Long generations Of controversy, turmoil, and bloodshed were yet to pass before man could allow his neighbour freedom to think, to speak, to live. We are yet but emerging, in Cap grave's day, from the long middle ages, when the roseate dawn Of the Renascence is only discernible on the horizon, and little indeed of its light steals into our Lynn scriptorium, and falls upon our black-lettered page. Round about us are war, rebellion, executions, the fall Of a dynasty, heresy, hunger, drought, pestilence, and angry thunder. Wonders are and have long been in the air, and find record in our books of history, the heavens fulminate, and stars fall. Some time before 1 361, the storm beats down men, beasts, trees, and housing, and the devil appears in man's likeness, in 1361 itself, the sun is eclipsed, rain like blood falls, and a cross of blood moves in the air, and finally falls in the sea at Boulogne while at the same time in France, England, and elsewhere, two mysterious castles appear, black and white hosts issue therefrom and fight, and all at last, castles and hosts, melt into thin air, and vanish.2 These things are in our histories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.