The only English rendering located is a selection: 'Regular life: monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules' (Kalamazoo: Published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications, 1997; 2nd ed. 2004, La Corte and McMillan/McMillan and Fladenmuller) lists in its contents 'Selections from Saint Caesarius of Arles, The rule for nuns', i.e. excerpts rather than the whole rule. A HOLLIS search for 'Caesarius rule for nuns' returns that volume, a study of the Regula by de Vogue in 'Women in monasticism' (Petersham: St. Bede's, 1989), and Julie Ann Smith, 'Ordering women's lives' (Ashgate, 2001), whose contents include a descriptive chapter 'Caesarius' Rule for nuns' rather than an edition of the text. The standard Caesarius translations do not contain the rules: the Fathers of the Church volumes are the Sermons (1-238 in three volumes, Washington: CUA Press, 1956-73) and the Translated Texts for Historians volume is 'Caesarius of Arles: life, testament, letters' (Liverpool, 1994), which carries the Vita, the Testament and the letters only. The Latin text is in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, text idno 7850, 6,433 words, fetched HTTP 200).
The first Western monastic rule written expressly for women and the remote ancestor of the enclosure legislation that governed nuns for a millennium; it is also the chief witness to how Caesarius organised the female community at Arles. Only excerpts circulate in English, so a reader cannot follow its detailed provisions on the abbess, admission, clothing, food, reading and the exclusion of visits.
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| corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina; TEI by Corpus Corporum, University of Zurich) |
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| Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules | "Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078698350203941 |