The footnotes in square brackets were not present in the original text. They provide brief explanations and translations from Latin.
Scriptural translations are taken from the version by Ronald Knox, who translated from the Vulgate text that Hermann and his contemporaries used.
Translations from the Rule of Saint Benedict are by Abbot Justin McCann OSB (London: Sheed and Ward, 1970).
View of the monastery on the island of Reichenau, on Lake Constance
