Dom Jean Mabillon

Broschiertes Buch

Treatise on Monastic Studies

1691

Beschreibung

This is the first English translation of Dom Jean Mabillon's treatise that defends the propriety of study and research as an occupation for monks, and lays out a course of studies for young Benedictines training to be scholars. This edition includes a translator's introduction, suggestions for further reading on the monastic studies controversy, all Mabillon's marginal notes, a bibliography of all published works mentioned in the text, and an index.

Autor

John Paul McDonald is Associate Professor of French at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. Professor McDonald holds a doctorate from the University of Paris. Dom Jean Mabillon was the outstanding scholar of a group of reformed 17th century Benedictine monks, the Maurists, based at the ancient abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780761828914
• ISBN-10: 0761828915
• Artikelnr.: 21913142