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This volume, the fifth in the series of volumes containing the 180 letters written by the eleventh-century monk Peter Damian, contains careful and annotated translations of Damian’s Letters 121–150. Written during the years 1062–66, the letters deal with a wide variety of subjects and provide a contemporary account of many of the controversies of the gripping period in the history of church and...

(16) When you are in good health, do not of your own accord give in to fatigue. Are you listening to what I am saying? For this greatly disturbs me in many monasteries, that some monks who are physically sound and have no need of medical attention today submit themselves to the phlebotomist who will open their veins, tomorrow make use of leeches, and on the day after tomorrow prepare different kinds of medication. In the meantime the finest wheat is milled, and cakes are made under the most exact
Pages 65–66
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