About this objectBenedict of Nursia (c.480–c.547), as head of a monastery in Italy, laid down rules for the monks' communal life. This was to become the dominant form of monasticism in western Europe, shown by the production of this book in England around 700, a copy of the rules.
Chapter 55, starting at the bottom right here, concerns the clothing and footwear of a monk, and rules that 'Monks must not complain about the colour or coarseness of all these articles, but use what is available in the vicinity at a reasonable cost.'
Date Madec.700
PeriodAnglo-Saxon
Place MadeEngland
Subject and Association KeywordsLiving in Belief
Subject and Association KeywordsBooks
Subject and Association DescriptionLearn More: Breay and Story 2018; Doyle 2015 (trans.)
