Treatise on Monastic Studies
Subtitle: 1691
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780761828914
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Western Continental Europe; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western; Europe - France; Monastic and religious life; Monasticism and religious orders
Description: Publisher description: Treatise defending the propriety of study and research as an occupation for monks, and laying out a course of studies for young Benedictines training to be scholars. Includes a translator's introduction, suggestions for further readings on the 17th-century monastic studies controversy, Mabillon's marginal notes, and a bibliography of all published works mentioned in the text.