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The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval church as a whole: while new orders arose, they took some of their customs, and their observant and spiritual outlook, from the 'Regula Benedicti'. The Benedictines may also be counted among the founders of medieval Europe. In many regions of the continent they created, or consolidated, the first Christian communities; they also directed the development of their social organisation, economy, and environment, and exerted a powerful influence on their emerging cultural and intellectual trends. This book, the first comparative study of its kind, follows the Benedictine Order over eleven centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation. Dr James G. Clark teaches in the Department of History at the University of Bristol.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Benedictines in the Middle Ages
• Author: James Clark
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9781843836230
• ISBN: 1843836238
• ID: 04368373
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Weight: 744 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. June 2011

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