In its original printing, this edition of the Autobiography was greeted in Saturday Review as ‘a treasure-house of information on education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns … also delightful reading with its mingling of scholarship and superstition, its stories of necromancy and devils, its other-worldliness warring with human weakness.‘Originally published by Harper Torchbooks, 1970.

In its original printing, this edition of the Autobiography was greeted in Saturday Review as ‘a treasure-house of information on education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns … also delightful reading with its mingling of scholarship and superstition, its stories of necromancy and devils, its other-worldliness warring with human weakness.‘Originally published by Harper Torchbooks, 1970.