Early Monastic Rules: The Rules of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis (with Latin Edition)
Overview
This treasury of early Western monastic thought, which is no longer available in the print edition, contains five rules from the tradition that produced the Rule of St. Benedict. These rules reveal the early evolution of cenobitic monasticism in the West. As such, they help document the appropriation of the original general of Christian cenobitic monastic literature—the Rules of Basil, Pachomius, and Augustine—to a new setting and circumstance.
Three of the rules precede Benedict’s Rule. These are the Rule of the Holy Fathers Serapion, Macarius, Paphnutius, and Another Macarius, the Second Rule of the Fathers, and the Rule of Macarius. The Third Rule of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis are contemporary with the Rule of St. Benedict. Early Monastic Rules includes both the English and Latin translations of these ancient rules.
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Key Features
- Presents a treasury of early Western monastic thought
- Contains five rules from the monastic tradition
- Reveals the early evolution of cenobitic monasticism in the West
Product Details
- Title: Early Monastic Rules: The Rules of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis (with English Edition)
- Translator: Carmela Vircillo Franklin
- Editor: Carmela Vircillo Franklin
- Publisher: Liturgical Press
- Publication Date: 1982
- Pages: 168
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Church Documents
- Topic: Practical Theology
Partially includedAbout Carmela Vircillo Franklin
Carmela Vircillo Franklin is a professor at Columbia University in New York. She received her BA and PhD in Classics and Medieval Latin from Harvard University. She served for five years as the director of the American Academy in Rome, and is widely published in medieval Latin literature studies.