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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts

Title
The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts / Saint Æthelwold of Winchester ; translated and introduced by Jacob Riyeff.
Author
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Publication
  • Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984
  • Riyeff, Jacob, 1982-
Description
xi, 190 pages : maps; 22 cm
Summary
"St. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory of religious life in early medieval England and influenced the ways in which secular power was conceived and wielded in the kingdom. Æthelwold's translation into Old English reworks Benedict's Latin text through numerous silent additions, omissions, and instances of explanatory material, revealing an Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical and political reformer intent on making this foundational Latin text more readily accessible to the new monks and nuns of the Reform and to the laity. Presented with related texts composed in Old English, this volume makes Æthelwold's transformation of Benedict's Rule available in Modern English translation for the first time."--
Series Statement
Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred sixty-four
Uniform Title
Cistercian studies series ; no. 264.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Early works.
  • History.
  • Rules.
Note
  • A translation of Benedict's Rule into modern English, prepared by Jacob Riyeff from the Old English text of the Rule made by Saint Aethelwold in the 10th century. This modern English version is intended as a tool for further study of Aethelwold's Old English text. Appendices 1-4 contain additional English translations of Old English source texts.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The Rule of Saint Benedict as translated by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester -- Appendix 1. Concerning the kinds of monks (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A.x) -- Appendix 2. Concerning the monastery's priests and their servants (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A.x) -- Appendix 3. "King Edgar's establishment of monasteries" -- Appendix 4. Ælfric's Homily, On Saint Benedict, Abbot.
Call Number
JFD 18-2807
ISBN
  • 9780879072643
  • 0879072644
LCCN
2017043542
OCLC
983824529
Author
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino, author.
Title
The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts / Saint Æthelwold of Winchester ; translated and introduced by Jacob Riyeff.
Publisher
Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred sixty-four
Cistercian studies series ; no. 264.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
Chronological Term
600-1500
Added Author
Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984, translator.
Riyeff, Jacob, 1982- translator, editor.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula. English (Aethelwold : Riyeff)
Other Form:
Online version: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Old English Rule of Saint Benedict. Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, 2017 9780879074982 (DLC) 2017043542
Research Call Number
JFD 18-2807
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