The Autobiography of Guibert: Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy is divided into three separate books, each book conveying a different concept. The first book consists of Gibert life from youth to adulthood, in addition to a conversation with God throughout the chapters. The second book consists of history of the monastery that he lived in. The third book gives a detail description of the uprising near Laon. Guibert structured his autobiography so each book would convey a different aspect of life while he was alive.
The first book consists of twenty-six chapters recounting Guibert life from when he was preconceived to when he becomes an adult. Guibert work is similar to another renowned work Confessions by Augustine. In Augustine’s work he gives accounts …show more content…
Guibert being a very religious man from an early age, he incorporated the section about the monastery since it is such a large part of his life. He writes of the stories of different individuals who joined the monastery. One of the stories was a young Jewish boy who joined the monastery. Beforehand he was baptized and while he was being baptized the people surrounding him saw “when they came to the part where a candle is lighted and the melted wax is dropped on the water, a drop of it was seen to fall separately all by itself, taking the shape of a tiny cross on the water so exactly in its minute substance that no human hand could have so fashioned it with so little.” The small drop of candle way turns into a cross, which is the symbol of Christianity. This symbol shows a boy going form a Jew to a Christian. This holds true since when the boy grows older and joins the monastery he finds more love for God’s work. In addition, Guibert talks about a noble Beauvais who once was not a religious man, but who found God and became a religious man in the monastery. Book two can be considered as a section of Guibert’s autobiography dedicated to praising God. He praises God all throughout his work, however book two center on the monastery, which is a place to praise
The first book consists of twenty-six chapters recounting Guibert life from when he was preconceived to when he becomes an adult. Guibert work is similar to another renowned work Confessions by Augustine. In Augustine’s work he gives accounts …show more content…
Guibert being a very religious man from an early age, he incorporated the section about the monastery since it is such a large part of his life. He writes of the stories of different individuals who joined the monastery. One of the stories was a young Jewish boy who joined the monastery. Beforehand he was baptized and while he was being baptized the people surrounding him saw “when they came to the part where a candle is lighted and the melted wax is dropped on the water, a drop of it was seen to fall separately all by itself, taking the shape of a tiny cross on the water so exactly in its minute substance that no human hand could have so fashioned it with so little.” The small drop of candle way turns into a cross, which is the symbol of Christianity. This symbol shows a boy going form a Jew to a Christian. This holds true since when the boy grows older and joins the monastery he finds more love for God’s work. In addition, Guibert talks about a noble Beauvais who once was not a religious man, but who found God and became a religious man in the monastery. Book two can be considered as a section of Guibert’s autobiography dedicated to praising God. He praises God all throughout his work, however book two center on the monastery, which is a place to praise