Vita Odilonis abbatis
· Jotsald of Cluny
· c. 1050-1052
· hagiography
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 for 'Vita Odilonis Jotsald' and 'Life of St Odilo Cluny translation' return no English translation: the modern renderings found are German ('Vita des Abtes Odilo von Cluny', Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1999, in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica series, and the 2018 Hiersemann volume of the five abbatial lives). The volume that does give English Cluniac hagiography, 'St. Odo of Cluny' (Sheed and Ward, 1958), contains the Life of Odo by John of Salerno and Odo's Life of Gerald of Aurillac, not Jotsald. The Latin text is in TEI in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, text idno 9951, 16,244 words, fetched HTTP 200).
Jotsald's life covers the abbacy in which Cluny's liturgical intercession for the dead became a Europe-wide institution and in which the monastery's exemptions were fixed. It is also a rare first-hand discussion of monastic friendship and of the abbot's own ascetic practice. At 16,244 words it is the largest text in this file, and in English it is entirely unavailable.
"Ex quadris lapidibus : la pierre et sa mise en œuvre dans l'art médiéval : mélanges d'histoire de l'art offerts à Eliane Vergnolle." Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, c2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990131639680203941