The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts /

"St. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory...

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Main Author:	Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino (Author)
Other Authors:	Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 (Translator), Riyeff, Jacob, 1982- (Translator, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Original Latin text of the Rule translated into Old English by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, now presented in English translation from the Old English. Published with accompanying Old English texts, here translated into English.
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications ; Liturgical Press, [2017]
Series:	Cistercian studies series ; no. 264.
Subjects:	Benedictines > Rules. Aethelwold, > Saint, Bishop of Winchester, > approximately 908-984. Benedictines. Monasticism and religious orders > Rules. Monasticism and religious orders > England > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500. RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic. Monasticism and religious orders. Monasticism and religious orders > Middle Ages. England. 600-1500 History. Rules.

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Summary:	"St. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory of religious life in early medieval England and influenced the ways in which secular power was conceived and wielded in the kingdom. Æthelwold's translation into Old English reworks Benedict's Latin text through numerous silent additions, omissions, and instances of explanatory material, revealing an Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical and political reformer intent on making this foundational Latin text more readily accessible to the new monks and nuns of the Reform and to the laity. Presented with related texts composed in Old English, this volume makes Æthelwold's transformation of Benedict's Rule available in Modern English translation for the first time."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:	xi, 190 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
ISBN:	9780879072643 0879072644