num_pages: 226
description: Contents:	Introduction --Monks and regular canons in the twelfth century: The state of the question --A new approach --Part 1: Regular canons and the concern for edification --1. The sources --Treatises of practical spiritual advice --Two groups of sources --Regular canons and the right to preach --2. The individual treatises --The compilation in MS Ottoboni Lat. 175 and the Regula Clericorum --The Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini, Odo of St. Vincent's letters, and Hugh of St. Victor's De Institutione Novitorum --The commentary in MS Vienna 2207 and Philip of Harvengt's De Institutione Clericorum --Richard of St. Victor's De Questionibus, the Bridlington Dialogue, and Adam of Dryburgh's Liber de Ordine --3. The context --The meaning of example --The concern for edification in it context --Conclusion --Part 2: The Monastic focus on the individual as learner --1. The sources --Treatises of practical spiritual advice --The Benediction Rule --2. The early twelfth century: Individual treatises --The eleventh-century background: John of Fruttuaria's De Vitae Ordine --Rupert of Deutz's Super Quaedam Capitula Regulae, Abelard's Rule for Nuns, and Peter in the Deacon's Commentaries --Bernard of Clairvaux's De Gradibus Humilitatis and De Praecepto et Dispensatione, and Aelred of Reievaulx's Speculum Caritatis --3. The later twelfth century: Individual treatises --Hildegard of Bingen's Explanatio Regulae, Joachim of Flora's Commentary, The De Novitiis Instruendis, the Commentary from Pontigny, and Adam of Perseigne's letters --Peter of Celle's De Disciplina Claustrali, Arnulf of Boheries's Speculum Monachorum, and Stephen of Salley's Speculum Novitii --Stephen of Paris's Expositio Super Regulam: The exception that proves the rule --4. Differences and similarities --Psychological subtlety, community, and monastic attitudes toward example --The idea of the individual as learner in its twelfth-century context --Conclusion.
language: English
title: Docere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth Century Spirituality
titlecomplete: Docere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth Century Spirituality
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Scholars Press