Three treatises from Bec on the nature of monastic life
By: edited with introduction and notes by Giles Constable ; translated by Bernard S. Smith.
Contributors: Constable, Giles.
Series: Medieval Academy books -- 109
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780802092601
Subjects: Benedictines -- Spiritual life; Bec (Abbey); Abbots
Other titles: Tractatus de professionibus monachorum. English & Latin.; De professionibus abbatum. English & Latin.; De libertate Beccensis monasterii. English & Latin.
Notes: "The three treatises presented in this volume were originally planned as additions to a revised reprint issued in 2003, of their Oxford Medieval Texts edition of the Libellus de diversis ordinibus et professionibus qui sunt in aecclesia, Oxford, 1972 ... "--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169) and indexes.

Latin text and English translation on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Tractatus de professionibus monachorum = The professions of monks; title: De professionibus abbatum = The professions of abbots; title: De libertate Beccensis monasterii = On the liberty of the monastery of Bec.