"Especially significant is his treatment of the end of the first millennium. He is the primary source for claims of widespread fear and divine omens (famines and eclipses) anticipating the end of the world. Nineteenth-century historians relying too heavily on this one monk of ill repute popularised the notion that the people of the late tenth century lived in superstitious fear of nonevents."
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...Sure there were prophets of doom, like the monk Rodulfus Glaber, who had the unpleasant experience of having the devil appear at the end of his bed several times, 'a shaggy, black, hunched up figure with pinched nostrils, a goats beard and blubbery lips'. But few people listened to his predictions and he was shown the door of monasteries across France. (The Star - Johannesburg 2000: Book of the week - The year 1000 by Robert Lacy & Danny Danziger)
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