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to mystic institute.org. Meet Rabanus Malrus. Those are his dates. Accept it. I will not

explain. Rabonus lived at the heart of the Dark Ages in the time of Charlemagne and his descendants.

Rabonis was a monk and a priest.

He spent about 20 years of his life as abbot of his monastery, Fuldur.

He Fulda.

Fultz in central Germany.

Then about six years as Bishop of Mainz before his death.

Okay.

He built churches.

He wrote important books.

He did monkish things.

Generally, he did exactly what you would expect a Dark Ages intellectual do.

Well, you'll find out. But Robotus' chief virtue and the reason that I took the train from Rhode Island to come

down and talk to you people today, is because Robonis is boring.

But don't take my word for it.

The literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin could find nothing nicer to call him than an austere

churchman of the 9th century.

And the great medievalist Ernst Robert Kortzius called his work dreary and said that he is a man without, quote, any intellectual

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