Three HOLLIS searches ('Isidore Regula monachorum', 'Isidore of Seville Regula monachorum Sevilla', 'Isidore of Seville monastic rule English') return only the Migne 'Opera omnia' (Latin), a 1909 German dissertation by Klee on the rule's relation to other rules, and unrelated items; no English translation of the rule appears. A further HOLLIS query ('Isidore of Seville Etymologies English translation') returns the Cambridge Etymologies (2006) and an English Synonyma and Differentiae (2012), so the English Isidore corpus is substantial and the absence of the rule is a real gap rather than an artefact of neglect. The Latin text is in TEI in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, work 'Regula monachorum', text idno 8217, 5,852 words, fetched HTTP 200); a second Migne version of the text (text idno 8755) is indexed in the same corpus.
Isidore's rule is the normative monastic text of Visigothic Spain and the document against which Fructuosus and the Regula communis have to be read; it also carries the most systematic early medieval treatment of the abbot's office. Nothing of it is available in English, although Isidore is one of the most translated early medieval authors, so the gap is easy to overlook.
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| corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina; TEI by Corpus Corporum, University of Zurich) |
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| For court, manor, and church; education in medieval Europe | Barnes, Donna R. "For court, manor, and church; education in medieval Europe." Minneapolis, Burgess Pub. Co. [1971]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990030388470203941 |
| Monstrous Transformations : Translating and Adapting Colonial Echoes in Wonders of the East | Ankai, Alexandria Nyarkoa (AB, Harvard University, 2024). "Monstrous Transformations : Translating and Adapting Colonial Echoes in Wonders of the East." Harvard University, 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157854968203941 |