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10 - Social Plurality and Monastic Diversity in Late Antique Hispania (Sixth to Eighth Century)

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Now that the world’s time has begun to wane and is almost up, charity becomes cold, the most brutal forms of iniquity gain force, and the flame of ever unappeasable and voracious human ambition rekindles, and the devil’s most maddening and covetous atrocity grows bolder. In these sacred places there are ever fewer chosen individuals who willingly embrace the Lord. And, so that these monasteries do not become abandoned ruins, they take pig-keepers from their own slaves and humpbacks from their own herds and youth from their properties, whom they tonsure against their will so that they may attend them in their religious services, and who are given a certain education at monasteries and are falsely called monks.

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RCom: Regula communis, edited and translated in Spanish by Julio Campos Ruiz and Ismael Roca Meliá, in San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda (Madrid, 1971), 165–208. English translation: Claude W. Barlow, trans., Iberian Fathers. II: Braulio of Saragossa. Fructuosus of Braga (Washington, DC, 1969), 176–206.Google Scholar
RconM: Regula Consensoria Monachorum, PL 66, 993–6. English translation: Claude W. Barlow, trans., Iberian Fathers. II: Braulio of Saragossa. Fructuosus of Braga (Washington, DC, 1969), 213–20.Google Scholar
RFruc: Fructuosus of Braga, Regula, edited and translated in Spanish by Julio Campos Ruiz and Ismael Roca Meliá, in San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda (Madrid, 1971), 129–62. English translation: Claude W. Barlow, trans., Iberian Fathers. II: Braulio of Saragossa. Fructuosus of Braga (Washington, DC, 1969), 155–75.Google Scholar
RI: Isidore of Seville, Regula, edited and translated in Spanish by Julio Campos Ruiz and Ismael Roca Meliá, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda (Madrid, 1971), 79–125.Google Scholar

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