The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict: with Related Old English Texts Author: Aethelwold and Jacob Riyeff Retail Price: $29.95 Our Price: $27.39 Save: 2.56 (8.55%) Availability: In Stock        St. Æthelwold (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. 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. Similar Items you may enjoy! The Rule of St. Benedict in English Author: Timothy Fry Our Price: $13.46 The Foundations of Western Monasticism: The Life of Saint Anthony of the Desert. the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict, and the Twelve Degrees of Humility and Pride - eBook Author: William Fahey(ILLUS) Our Price: $7.99 The Rule of Saint Benedict Our Price: $25.00 The Rule of Saint Benedict - eBook Author: St. Benedict of Nursia and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Our Price: $7.99

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