文档介绍：Mastering Benedict: Monastic Rules and Their Authors in the Early Medieval West
Marilyn Dunn
The English Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 416. (Jul., 1990), pp. 567-594.
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Mastering Benedict: monastic rules and
their authors in the early medieval West"
JUSTover fifty years ago, Dom Augustin Genestout startled first his
fellow-monks of the monastery of Solesmes and then a general chapter
of Benedictine abbots in Rome by announcing 'one of the greatest
surprises in the history of medieval scholarship'.' He declared that
the Rule of St B