The Pursuit of Salvation
Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism: With a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines
By (author) Albrecht Diem
The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone’s Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to pursue eternal salvation. The book provides a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and a roadmap for such a new history revolving around various aspects of monastic discipline, such as the agency of the community, the role of enclosure, authority and obedience, space and boundaries, confession and penance, sleep and silence, excommunication and expulsion.
The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone’s Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to pursue eternal salvation. The book provides a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and a roadmap for such a new history revolving around various aspects of monastic discipline, such as the agency of the community, the role of enclosure, authority and obedience, space and boundaries, confession and penance, sleep and silence, excommunication and expulsion.
- By (author) Albrecht Diem
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Volume 2
From Dead of Night to End of Day
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Volume 3
Les deux vies de Robert d’Arbrissel, fondateur de Fontevraud. Legendes, ecrits et temoignages
The Two Lives of Robert of Arbrissel, Founder of Fontevraud. Legends, Writings, and Testimonies
Assistenza, ospitalità e ospedali presso monasteri e canoniche regolari del medioevo europeo: l’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli in contesto
Care, Hospitality and Hospitals in Monasteries and Houses of Regular Canons in Medieval Europe: The Hospital of Sant’Andrea in Vercelli in Context
Volume 15
The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages / Le rituel de la mort a Cluny au Moyen age central
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Sources for Monastic Life in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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