1st Edition
The Chrodegang Rules The Rules for the Common Life of the Secular Clergy from the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Critical Texts with Translations and Commentary
By Jerome Bertram
Copyright 2005
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since its earliest days, the Christian Church sought to draw up rules by which its members could live together in religious communities. Whilst those of Augustine (c.400 AD) and Benedict (c.530 AD) provided detailed guidance for monastic life, it took another two centuries for equivalent rules for secular clergy to become accepted on a wide scale. The earliest surviving set of comprehensive rules... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; The common life of the secular clergy; The Rule of Chrodegang; The Council of Aachen and the Canonical Institute; The Longer Rule; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
The Reverend Jerome Bertram is an Independent Scholar from Oxford, UK.
'... provides a useful and accessible place in which to study some important but often neglected early medieval documents.' Catholic Historical Review 'Students and teachers of medieval history will find this work a welcome source for the changing milieu of clerical common life in the early Middle Ages... The Latin is carefully translated into clear and comprehensible English, with many footnotes to satisfy the scholar.' American Benedictine Review
