A Critical Study of the Rule of Benedict - Volume 3: Liturgy, Sleeping Arrangements, and the Penal Code (RB 8-20, 22-30, 42-46)

About the Author\nAdalbert de Vogüé was born in 1924 and became a monk of Pierre-qui-Vire in 1944. He taught patristics and early monasticism at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. From 1974-2011 he lived as a hermit near his monastery. His six-volume work on the Rule of St. Benedict is considered to be the definitive work on the Rule. He was regarded as the authority on the Rule of Benedict and the Rules of western monasticism. In recent years he published twelve volumes on the history of western monasticism.\nThe work of Adalbert de Vogüé, OSB (1924 2011) serves as the basis of all serious study of the Rule of Benedict. this third volume in the series "A Critical Study of The Rule of Benedict" interprets The Rule, especially facets of monastic life that secular readers might find unimportant such as prayer regimen, psalmody, correction of faults, and everyday routines like sleeping arrangements. This meticulous scholarship in an accessible translation by Benedictine Sister Colleen Maura McGrane traces how Benedict departed from earlier Rules and explains why, more than 1,500 years later, monasteries still follow these practices. (Judith Valente - author of How to Live: What The Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning and Community)