Regula. English

The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict : with related Old English texts / Saint Æthelwold of Winchester ; translated and introduced by Jacob Riyeff.

Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2017]

xi, 190 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Original Latin text of the Rule translated into Old English by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, now presented in English translation from the Old English. Published with accompanying Old English texts, here translated into English.

"St. Æthelwold (904/909-984), 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."--Page 4 of cover.

Online version: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Old English Rule of Saint Benedict. Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, 2017

English

February 09, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.