Regula monachorum
· Fructuosus of Braga
· c. 640-650
· treatise
Latin · domain: latin-monastic-rules · researched 2026-11-14
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS searches ('Fructuosus of Braga rule', 'Fructuosus Braga Regula monachorum edition', 'Regula communis Fructuosus') return no English translation: the renderings that exist are German ('Klosterregeln: Monchsregel - gemeinsame Regel', Sankt Ottilien: EOS, 2016, which translates both the Rule for Monks and the Common Rule) and Spanish ('Reglas monasticas de la Espana visigoda', Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1971). The Latin text is in TEI in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, text idno 8281, 12,335 words, fetched HTTP 200). English readers meet Fructuosus only through Andrew Fear's 'Lives of the Visigothic Fathers' (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool, 1997), which translates Valerius's Life of Fructuosus, not the rule.
Fructuosus's rule is the most original product of Hispano-Visigothic monasticism, with its idiosyncratic treatment of the abbot's discretion, of private property and of the admission of slaves and children. It exists in German and Spanish but not in English, so the whole Iberian monastic tradition apart from Isidore's Etymologies is closed to English readers.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino · 1987 · eng
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. "St. Benedict's rule for monks : selected passages from the Rule of St. Benedict." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012818910203941