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Serlo of Wilton

Serlo of Wilton, also known as Serlo of Paris, was a learned Latin poet and a monk. Born about 1105, Serlo acquired a thorough classical education and went on to teach at the University of Paris. Subsequently disillusioned with university life, Serlo became a Cluniac monk at Charité-sur-Loire about 1155. He grew to seek a more disciplined monastic life than that of the Cluniacs. He thus moved to the newly formed Cistercian order that emphasized Saint Benedict’s original monastic ideals of communal work, austerity, fellowship, and prayer. He was a Cistercian monk at L’Aumône Abbey, about 34 kilometers north of Blois, in the 1160s. He became the abbot of L’Aumône Abbey about 1173. Serlo died in 1181. Serlo is notable for his vitality, exuberance, and sensitivity as a man — a fully male human being.

Hugh Primas: overcome sexual-market injustice with medieval education

The medieval Latin poet Hugh Primas sought to educate men about women so that sexual-market injustices wouldn’t be men’s inevitable fortune. … Read the post Hugh Primas: overcome sexual-market injustice with medieval education

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