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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

with Related Old English Texts

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Liturgical Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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St. AEthelwold (904/9 -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. AEthelwold'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 AEthelwold's transformation of Benedict's Rule available in Modern English translation for the first time.
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  • Author

    AEthelwold

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Liturgical Press

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    250g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780879072643

  • ISBN-10

    0879072644

  • Eden Code

    4535490

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