Benedict of Aniane - The Emperor's Monk, Ardo's Life

Klappentext Given the task of reviving monasticism and imposing uniformity throughout the Carolingian Empire! Witiza! a Visigothic lord became monk with the name Benedict! and read and compared all the existing monastic rules he could. Despite his own preference for rigorous austerity! he settled on the Rule of Saint Benedict! composed for beginners or the sick as the guide most suited to his countrymen. Its imposition! with accompanying legislation issued at the reforming synods of Aachen early in the ninth century! made the Rule of Benedict as interpreted by the second Benedict the monastic norm in the west and the sole monastic rule for nearly three centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Allen (TRN)/ Grabowsky Cabaniss, Clemens Radl
• Assisted by: Allen Cabaniss (Translation)
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2008
• EAN: 9780879073206
• ISBN: 978-0-87907-320-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Cistercian Studies; Cistercian Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography