Medievalists.net » Rule of St. Benedict http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A Revival of Female Spirituality: Adaptations of Nuns’ Rules during the Hiberno-Frankish Monastic Movement http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:24:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42789 Before Columbanus, Irish abbots demonstrated little interest in producing monastic rules as we know them from the traditions of Benedict of Nursia and Caesarius of Arles. Preferring instruction by example to any documented tenets, Irish monasticism emphasized the conduct of the founding or ruling abbot or abbess as a model to imitate.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/feed/ 0 Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/03/of-monks-medieval-scribes-and-middlemen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/03/of-monks-medieval-scribes-and-middlemen/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:04:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39041 The copying of books was also slow, tedious, and very time-consuming; it took years for a scribe to complete 'a particularly fine manuscript with colored initials and miniature art work.'

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/03/of-monks-medieval-scribes-and-middlemen/feed/ 0 The Consuetudines canonice of Lund http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:50:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37486 In this paper we shall deal with the customs in Lund, the so-called Consuetudines canonice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/feed/ 0 The Passion of Peter Abelard http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:56:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37408 In the philosophical part of the project we chose not to use Abelardís work Dialogue of the Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian, which explains his views on different religions. Since we decided to use the Letters of Direction in order to get an overview about Abelardís view on Christianity, there appeared to be little need for the aforementioned book.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/feed/ 0 The Benedictine Centuries: Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-1066 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:45:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28378 This synopsis of the type of person who became a Benedictine monk reflects the welcoming attitude that St Benedict hoped to give to the rule for monastic living that now bears his name. It also reflects the variety of people who came into a life of monasticism in England during the Anglo-Saxon period of 597-1066. These people were drawn to the simple spiritual life formed by St Benedict of Nursia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/feed/ 0 The monastic response to Papal reform: Summi Magistri and it reception http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:17:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27688 This is a question which has dogged the history of the interaction between Rome and the Black monks, and it brings a second question in its wake - what were the medieval Popes trying to do with monasticism?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/feed/ 0 St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/23/st-benedict-of-nursia-the-birth-of-western-monasticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/23/st-benedict-of-nursia-the-birth-of-western-monasticism/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:14:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26596 St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism Steele, Helen Published Online, Guernicus.com (2006) Abstract St Benedict of Nursia was the founder of western monasticism and an important figure in the early medieval church. Eschewing the dissolute lifestyle of Rome, he became an ascetic hermit, and then as others began to flock to him, he […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/23/st-benedict-of-nursia-the-birth-of-western-monasticism/feed/ 0 An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/09/an-essay-on-cistercian-liturgy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/09/an-essay-on-cistercian-liturgy/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:26:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=15110 An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy Kerr, Julie Cistercians in Yorkshire, University of Sheffield (2004) Abstract Concerning the mode and order of Divine services, the monks of Cîteaux decided right at the beginning to observe in everything the traditions of the Rule, cutting away entirely and rejecting all appendages to the psalms, orations and litanies, which were […]

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