Grimlaicus: Rule For Solitaries Rule For Solitaries Regula Solitariorum. English Project Muse Upcc Books

The Monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) Wrote A Rule For Those Who, Like Himself, Pursued The Solitary Life Within A Monastic Community. Never Leaving Their Cell Yet Participating In The Liturgical Life Of The Monastery Through A Window Into The Church, These Enclosed Sought To Serve God Alone. Beyond The Details Of Horarium, Reception Of Newcomers, Diet, And Clothing, Grimlaicus Details Practical Measures For Maintaining Spiritual, Psychological, And Physical Health, And For Giving Counsel To Others. Scripture, The Rule Of St. Benedict, And The Teachings Of Early Ecclesial And Monastic Writers Form The Kernel Of Grimlaicus's Wise And Balanced Rule, Presented Here For The First Time In English Translation. -- Publisher's Description. The Rule For Solitaries -- Index Of Scriptural References -- Index Of Patristic And Monastic Authors -- Index Of Citations From The Rule Of Saint Benedict. Translated With Introduction And Notes By Andrew Thornton. This Volume Presents The First English Translation Of The Regula Solitariorum Of Grimlaicus--introd. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 180-181) And Indexes. The monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) wrote a rule for those who, like himself, pursued the solitary life within a monastic community. Never leaving their cell yet participating in the liturgical life of the monastery through a window into the church, these enclosed" sought to serve God alone. Beyond the details of horarium, reception of newcomers, diet, and clothing, Grimlaicus details practical measures for maintaining spiritual, psychological, and physical health, and for giving counsel to others. Scripture, the Rule of St. Benedict, and the teachings of early ecclesial and monastic writers form the kernel of Grimlaicus's wise and balanced rule, presented here for the first time in English translation. Andrew Thornton is a monk of Saint Anselm Abbey and associate professor in the department of Modern Languages at Saint Anselm College, where he teaches German language and Chinese philosophy. He is organist in the abbey church. He translated the poems of the twelfth-century recluse Ava, the first woman to write in a European vernacular ( The Poems of Ava, Liturgical Press). " introduces French vocabulary with lots of illustrations hardcover 96 pages includes pull-out chart copyright 1960