Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Wisdom of À Kempis: With an Introduction
The Most Christian Doctor, was born near Rheims in 1363. His was a stormy career, and his personality is more indelibly impressed upon his time than is that of either of his con temporaries. Before he was thirty he occupied the position of Chancel lor of the University of Paris. He took an active part in the turbulent politics of the period, changed sides as the shuttlecock of Right was bat tledored from one party to another, defied popes, kings, and peoples, was forced to ?ee the country, and finally retired to a monastery at Lyons. There be devoted the remainder of his life to less aggressive pursuits.
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