The Carolingians and the Regula Benedicti
Albrecht Diem
This chapter addresses the question of how monks and monastic reformers dealt with disconnect between content Regula Benedicti their own reality. Normative observance has its history genesis, it is certainly not productive to reduce any modern legalistic understanding. The suggests a typology four basic models textual techniques bridge gap regula reality: exegesis, selective reading, 'objectivation' embodiment. None these practices can be correctly described as 'symbolic' reading (as Pius Engelbert phrased it) or using simply metaphor Josef Semmler suggested it). All them demonstrate an intensive engagement but also variety attempts get around normative character.
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