Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Benedict’s life and works
* Features the complete extant works of Benedict, in both English translation and the original Latin
* Concise introduction to the author
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features Boniface Verheyen’s 1902 translation of the Rule
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* Includes Benedict’s rare sermon and letter
* Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph — ideal for classical students
* Features three bonus biographies, including Gregory the Great’s ‘Of the Life and Miracles of Saint Benedict’ — discover Benedict’s early medieval world
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Brief Introduction: Saint Benedict of Nursia (1911) by Edward Cuthbert Butler
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict’s Sermon on the Departure of Saint Maurus and His Companions
Saint Benedict’s Letter Saint Maurus
The Original Texts
Contents of the Latin Texts
The Dual Text
Dual Latin and English Text
The Biographies
Of the Life and Miracles of Saint Benedict (593) by Gregory I
Benedictus of Nursia (1911) by Isaac Gregory Smith
Saint Benedict of Nursia (1913) by Hugh Edmund Ford
