Medievalists.net » St. Columbanus http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +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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