Shows that the paradox at the heart of St Peter Damian's life and everything he cared about was rooted in the remarkable theology of love which finds expression across the whole of his work and gives it both coherence and dynamism.

"Explores the spirituality of St. Peter Damian, a reformer of church and society in the Middle Ages; explores tension between a call to solitude and holiness and a call to prophetic social and ecclesial engagement"--