
The Rule of Benedict
$25.73
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2008
Summary
The Rule of Benedict: A Timeless Guide to Monastic Life
New to Classics for the Rule of St Benedict, one of the most important written works in the shaping of Western society.
Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in whi…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780140449969 |
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ISBN-10: | 0140449965 |
Series: | Penguin Classics |
Author: | St Benedict, Carolinne White |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 160 |
Edition: | 1st |
Release Date: | 12 June 2008 |
Weight: | 124g |
Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
About The Author
St Benedict
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 AD - 543 AD) founded twelve monasteries, the best known of which was his first monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy. Benedict wrote a set of rules governing his monks, the Rule of Saint Benedict, one of the more influential documents in Western Civilization. Benedict was canonized a saint in 1220.
Carolinne White was born in London and read Classics and Modern Languages at St.Hugh’s College, Oxford. She wrote a doctoral thesis on Christian ideas of friendship in the fourth century, published in 1992. After 2 years spent teaching Latin at UNISA in Pretoria, she returned to Oxford where she worked on the supplement to the Liddell and Scott Greek Lexicon and taught Patristic and Medieval Latin. She now divides her time between work as an assistant editor on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, translation work, and her four children. Her publications include a translation of the correspondence between Jerome and Augustine (1990), Early Christian Lives (published by Penguin in 1998), and an anthology of Early Christian Latin poetry in translation (2000).
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