Migne prints, after Caesarius's sermons, the 'Regulae sancti Caesarii ad monachos et moniales', opening with the Rule for Monks which the priest Tetradius, Caesarius's nephew, took down from his dictation and circulated at his order (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0067mign, where the editor's note reads 'primum quidem occurrit Regula ad monachos, quam Tetradius presbyter et abbas, ipsius Caesarii nepos, ex ore dictantis excepit'). The English Caesarius is the sermons, Fathers of the Church 31, 47 and 66, running 1-238 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Caesarius%20of%20Arles%20sermons&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the dossier volume 'Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters' (Translated Texts for Historians 19, 1994) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Caesarius%20of%20Arles%20life%20testament%20letters&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 neither contains a rule. The anthology 'Regular Life' (1997) carries only 'Selections from Saint Caesarius of Arles, The rule for nuns' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rule%20for%20nuns%20Caesarius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of the Rule for Monks was located.
The short rule Caesarius drew up for the monastery he founded at Arles, and the counterpart to his better-known Rule for Nuns; it is a key witness to the passage from Lérins-style asceticism to episcopally supervised monasticism in sixth-century Gaul. It has never been put into English as a whole, and its 1,849 words - the shortest of the major Latin rules - would make a complete translation a small, self-contained project.
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| corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina; TEI by Corpus Corporum, University of Zurich) |
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| Caesarius of Arles : life, testament, letters | of Arles, Caesarius. "Caesarius of Arles : life, testament, letters." Liverpool University Press 1994. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157849508203941 |
| Authority and asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great | Leyser, Conrad. "Authority and asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great." Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990085937480203941 |
| Edition und Erforschung lateinischer patristischer Texte : 150 Jahre CSEL : Festschrift für Kurt Smolak zum 70. Geburtstag | "Edition und Erforschung lateinischer patristischer Texte : 150 Jahre CSEL : Festschrift für Kurt Smolak zum 70. Geburtstag." Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990140230430203941 |
| Western monasticism ante litteram : the spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages | "Western monasticism ante litteram : the spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990129433230203941 |
| Correspondence : models of letter-writing from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century | "Correspondence : models of letter-writing from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century." Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072550790203941 |