Kanuni ya Mtakatifu Benedikto ni kati ya maandishi kwa ajili ya utawa yaliyoathiri zaidi historia ya Kanisa na ya ulimwengu kwa jumla, hasa Ulaya, kwa kuwa baada ya muda mfupi ilikuja kuongoza maisha ya wamonaki karibu wote wa Kanisa la magharibi. Iliandikwa na Benedikto wa Nursia kwa kutumia kanuni za kitawa zilizotangulia, hasa Kanuni ya mwalimu, pamoja na mang'amuzi yake yaliyojaa busara.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Rule of St. Benedict". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. R. W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Pelican, 1970 Henry Mayr-Harting, The Venerable Bede, the Rule of St Benedict, and Social Class. Jarrow Lecture 1976; Jarrow: Rector of Jarrow, 1976. ISBN 0903495031 Christopher Derrick, The Rule of Peace: St. Benedict and the European Future. Still River, Mass.: St. Bede's Publications. 2002.