The Rule of Saint Benedict

Name: The Rule of Saint Benedict
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By Benedict of Nursia

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

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The Rule of Saint Benedict is a foundational medieval text that provides comprehensive guidance on the spiritual and organisational aspects of monastic life. This edition, featuring the Latin text from the early ninth-century St. Gall manuscript alongside an English translation, preserves Benedict's informal and conversational style, offering insight into his thought and the context of sixth-century spoken Latin. Included are explanatory notes, origin letters, and an index, making it valuable for both first-time readers and medieval scholars.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of medieval history, religion, and Latin language, as well as those interested in the development of monastic practices and spiritual traditions in the Middle Ages.

One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features for both first-time readers and scholars of medieval history and language.

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One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organisational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features of interest for first-time readers of the Rule as well as for scholars of medieval history and language.

The Latin text is a transcription of manuscript 914 of the Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland), an early ninth-century copy regarded as the version that most closely reproduces Benedict's style. The saint's idiom was informal, sometimes conversational, and heavily influenced by the spoken Latin of the sixth century CE. In the Rule, his voice and thought processes come through in all their strength and humanity. Readers will find background to the monastic life in the notes. This volume also includes texts and translations of two letters that explain the origins of the St. Gall version as well as an index to all the translated materials.