Monodies and On the Relics of SaintsThe first Western autobiography since Augustine's Confessions, the Monodies is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval society. As Guibert of Nogent intimately recounts his early years, monastic life, and the bloody uprising at Laon in 1112, we witness a world and a mind populated by royals, heretics, nuns, witches, and devils, and come to understand just how fervently he was preoccupied with sin,