Monastic Rules (Fourth to Ninth Century)

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9 - Monastic Rules (Fourth to Ninth Century)

from Part I - The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020

Albrecht Diem and

Philip Rousseau

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Alison I. Beach and

Isabelle Cochelin

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Alison I. Beach: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin: Affiliation:
University of Toronto

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In a study of late antique and early medieval monastic rules in the West, one logical starting point is Benedict of Aniane’s early ninth-century Codex regularum. We depend to an enormous degree on the sources that he has provided for us. The Codex (in the Munich manuscript, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 28118) is by far the most extensive early medieval collection of monastic rules: twenty-four rules for monks and six rules for nuns. Many of them would probably have been lost if Benedict of Aniane had not collected and preserved them. He also produced a second work, the Concordia regularum, in which he arranged most of the material of his collection so that it corresponded thematically, chapter by chapter, with what we now think of as the Rule of St. Benedict (RB, and what he thought of as the work of the sixth-century Benedict of Nursia).

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