Gottschalk – Lone Voice in the Night (4)

Gottschalk lifted his head and straightened his back. He looked out the window of the scriptorium and smiled. Sunlight was coming in. It was time for prayers and it would be a pleasant walk to the chapel. He closed the book he was reading, carefully lifting its ancient pages back into place. “On Man’s Perfection in Righteousness by Augustine,” read the title page. Gottschalk smiled at this too. Ever since he came to the monastery of Orbais a number of years ago, he had tried to study the works...