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Describe and evaluate Benedictine monasticism

21 August 2011 By Robert Atkin Leave a Comment

Monasticism can be traced back to the fourth century[1] and over the centuries there were several attempts to write a Rule by which the lives of monks would be ordered. In the sixth century Benedict took one such Rule by an Italian monk known as the Master[2] and developed it into, as Carolinne White comments, […]

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