Life of Maiolus, Abbot of Cluny

Vita Maioli abbatis · Sylius · late 10th-early 11th c. · hagiography

Latin · domain: latin-monastic-rules · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS searches for 'Vita Maioli Sylius' and 'Life of St Maiolus Cluny English' return no records at all, so the catalogue does not index an edition or a translation under this author or title, and the translation situation therefore cannot be established from it rather than being established as absent. The only modern rendering encountered is German: 'Die Geschichte von Cluny in den funf grossen Abtbiographien' (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2018), which translates the five abbatial lives including Maiolus. No open electronic text was verified, so none is recorded here.

The Life of Maiolus is the main narrative source for Cluny under its second abbot, the period in which the monastery's customs, its network of dependent houses and its immunity were consolidated. English readers have the Life of Odo and the Life of Gerald of Aurillac in Sitwell's 1958 volume but nothing for Maiolus, so the formative middle period of Cluniac history is documented only in German.

Existing translations recorded

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

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Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Sylius — 1 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — Gilo Vita Hugonis Cluny
• HOLLIS search — Life of St Maiolus Cluny English
• HOLLIS search — Vita Maioli Sylius

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Maiolus, Abbot of Cluny” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-sylius-vita-maioli