
A medieval knight in post-Conquest Wales recounts his struggle between love for Nesta and a calling to renounce earthly desire for Christ.
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A medieval knight in post-Conquest Wales recounts his struggle between love for Nesta and a calling to renounce earthly desire for Christ.
"Amour Wherein He Trusted" ... is a medieval romance set in the Welsh border country in the eleventh century, just after the Norman Conquest. The narrator is Sir Gilbert de Polrebec, now the Holy and Pious Abbot of Strata Florida. Sir Gilbert recounts his early life as a young knight, and his struggle as a young man to renounce his carnal and material desires in order to follow the spiritual callings of Christ. --www.marywebb.org.
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Love for Nesta; carnal desire and love's pleasures vs spiritual renunciation.
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Faith central: knight renounces earthly desire for Christ; later becomes abbot.
No fantasy magic present
No occult or demonology content present
Historical backdrop of Norman Conquest-era Welsh border country.
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