By James G. Clark
The lads and ladies that the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) shaped the main enduring, influential, a variety of and common non secular order of the Latin center a long time. Their liturgical perform, and their got flavor for studying, served as a version for the medieval church as a complete: whereas new orders arose, they took a few of their customs, and their observant and religious outlook, from the Regula Benedicti. The Benedictines can also be counted one of the founders of medieval Europe. in lots of areas of the continent they created, or consolidated, the 1st Christian groups; additionally they directed the advance in their social enterprise, economic system, and atmosphere, and exerted a strong impression on their rising cultural and highbrow trends.
This e-book, the 1st comparative learn of its sort, follows the Benedictine Order over 11 centuries, from their early diaspora to the problem of continental reformation.
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223–4. 3–5. 150 In these years Charlemagne also encouraged initiatives undertaken independently by the prelates in his circle. 152 Charlemagne’s patronage of particular houses and their superiors in this period modelled not only a new form of monastery independent of either episcopal or papal control but bound closely to the political, social and economic priorities of its secular patron but also a novel approach to their internal administration, with abbots (underpinned by their royal patron) placed in command of a regional network of monasteries.
Capitularia regum Francorum, I, ed. A. 76); Concilia aevi Karolini, Leges III, Concilia 2/1, ed. A. xxvii(22)). See also H. 29–30. 151 For Alcuin, see S. ad 732 to 804 (York, 1874). 214–15; J. 5–7. 103–35 at 103. 229–31, 290–1. 12–13. indb 36 25/05/2011 11:32 The Making of a European Order first (817) outlining the obligations of male and female religious under the RB and the elaborating the detail of its different liturgical requirements and its counterpart (818–19), addressing matters of corporate governance particularly in respect of the relationship with royal and episcopal authority.
85 Perhaps the one feature of all these narratives that has a hint of plausibility is the suggestion that the RB first drew attention, and perhaps a following, in ultramontane Europe. 87 This was a ‘mixed rule’ combining customs from Caesarius and the Regula Columbani together with the RB, knowledge of which Donatus may have born with him from Luxeuil, where he made his profession; certainly, an awareness of the code is attested in Columbanian diplomata of mid-century. 88 In the same northern and eastern region of Francia the RB appears to have claimed ascendancy barely decade after Donatus’s death.