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3 - Re-Reading Monastic Traditions: Monks and Nuns, East and West, from the Origins to c. 750

from Part I - The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Anne-Marie Helvétius ,
Michel Kaplan ,
Anne Boud’hors ,
Muriel Debié ,
Bénédicte Lesieur  and
Susan Boynton
Edited by
Alison I. Beach  and
Isabelle Cochelin
Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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To present the textual sources of Western monasticism up to c. 750, it is essential to involve specialists of Eastern Christianity in order to take into account the exchanges and reciprocal influences that have shaped the monks from different regions of the Christian world. In addition to my contribution on Latin sources, Michel Kaplan was responsible for the Greek sources, Anne Boud’hors for the Coptic ones, Muriel Debié for the Syriac sources (outside Palestine), and Bénédicte Lesieur for the Palestinian ones. Nevertheless, any attempt at synthesis would be premature; if many texts have been translated—from Greek to Latin and vice versa, but also into Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian, and Ethiopian—no existing repertory lists them. The current state of our knowledge is still lacunary, for it relies on an outmoded vision of history that separated and even opposed East and West.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 40 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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