Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules
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Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules
（Documents of practice series / general editor, Joel T. Rosenthal）
Published for TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) by Medieval Institute Publications, 2004
2nd ed
- : pbk. : alk. paper
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume offers readers a revised and considerably expanded version of the first Regular Life, edited by McMillan and Kathryn Smith Fladenmuller in 1997. As the editors note in their introduction, "The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the Rules of life of the major religious orders within the monastic, canonical, and mendicant traditions." Included are admonitions on and examples of the various forms of regular life by Antony, Syncletica, Pachomius, Basil, Cassian, Augustine, Caesarius of Arles, Benedict of Nursia, Columbanus, and Benedict of Aniane, plus selections from Rules for Cluniacs, Carthusians, Cistercians, the Knights Templar, the Hospitallers, and the followers of Saints Francis, Clare, and Dominic.
Table of Contents
Permissions Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
The Rules
The Carolingian Reform
The Cluniac Reform
The Twelfth-Century Monastic Renewal
The Military Orders: The Knights Templar and The Hospitallers
The Mendicants: Francis, Clare, and Dominic
Selected Bibliography
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