The Monastic Laboratory: Perspectives of Research in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism

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2 - The Monastic Laboratory: Perspectives of Research in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020

Albrecht Diem and

Claudia Rapp

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Alison I. Beach and

Isabelle Cochelin

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Alison I. Beach: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin: Affiliation:
University of Toronto

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Someone in need of a first orientation about the origins and the early history of monasticism, whether in the West or in the East, might feel confused and lost. Only one generation ago, a volume like this would have started in the Greek East with chapters on Antony and the Desert Fathers, Pachomius and the origins of cenobitism, Basil and his Rule; then moved on to the Latin West with Martin, Lérins, Caesarius of Arles (d. 542) and his Rule for nuns, Benedict and the Regula Benedicti (RB); continued further north with Columbanus (d. 615) and Irish monasticism; returned to the Continent with Anglo-Saxon monks; and concluded with Benedict of Aniane and the triumph of the RB in Carolingian times.

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Information: The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 19 - 39

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