‘Austin's Labour’: Patterns of Governance in Medieval Augustinian Monasticism
Darrel R. Reinke
In Chaucer's portrait of the monk, we are given image a lord prior who took “modern way,” especially in regard to monastic rules. The rule good Saint Benet or Maur, As old and strict, he tended ignore;… let go by things yesterday, modern world's more spacious way… Must toil, as Austin bade till very soil? Was leave world upon shelf? Let have his labour himself.
Church History