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- Title
Reims, Bibliothèque Carnegie, 806: a little-known manuscript of Benedict of Aniane's Concordia regularum.
- Authors
Claussen, M.A.
- Abstract
Benedict of Aniane is usually portrayed as the major instigator of a series of monastic reforms undertaken by Louis the Pious in the early years of his reign, which attempted to impose the Rule of Benedict of Nursia as the sole monastic standard across Francia. Based on information provided by Ardo, Benedict of Aniane's biographer, the Concordia regularum has been seen as Benedict's main instrument in his attempt to convince or compel others to accept the Rule as a superior norm. The Concordia itself is a sort of commentary on the Rule, where almost the whole of St Benedict's Rule is explained by texts drawn from other monastic rules. However, a number of fragments from a copy of the Concordia, apparently written a decade or more before the accession of Louis, contests Ardo's chronology, and challenges our traditional understanding of both Benedict of Aniane's role in monastic reform and of the Aachen reform councils. An edition of these fragments is included in an Appendix.
- Subjects
BENEDICT, of Aniane, Saint, ca. 750-821; MONASTIC rules; LOUIS I, Emperor, 778-840; BENEDICT, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino; ADRIAN I, Pope, d. 795; LITURGICAL language
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12086