"To embrace a sack of excrement" Odo of Cluny and the history of an image
"For all his fame as a monastic reformer, Odo of Cluny (d. 942) is also notorious today for having supposedly said that "to embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of excrement." The present article explores the history of this misquotation by reexamining Odo’s actual words in the contex...
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