The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts / Saint Æthelwold of Winchester ; translated and introduced by Jacob Riyeff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino, author.

Contributor:

Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984, translator.

Riyeff, Jacob, 1982- translator, editor.

Series:

Cistercian studies series ; no. 264.

Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred sixty-four

Language:

English

English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Benedictines--Rules.

Benedictines.

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules--Early works to 1800.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules.

Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984.

Aethelwold.

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.

Benedict.

Christian literature, Latin--Translations into Old English--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Latin.

Christian literature, English (Old)--History and criticism.

Christian literature, English (Old).

Monasticism and religious orders--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

England.

History.

Monasticism and religious orders--Middle Ages.

Genre:

History.

Rules.

Physical Description:

xi, 190 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2017]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.

Contains:

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula. English (Aethelwold : Riyeff)

Other Format:

Online version: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Old English Rule of Saint Benedict.

ISBN:

9780879072643

0879072644

OCLC:

983824529