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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Prologue
1: The kinds of monks
2: What kind of man the abbot should be
3: Summoning the brothers for consultation
4: The tools for good works
5: Obedience
6: Restraint of speech
7: Humility
8: The divine office at night
9: The number of psalms to be said at the night office
10: Arrangements for the night office in summer
11: The night office on Sundays
12: The office of Lauds
13: Arrangements for Lauds on ordinary days
14: Arrangements for the night office on saints’ days
15: The times for saying the Alleluia
16: Arrangements for the divine office during the day
17: The number of psalms to be said at these hours
18: The order of the psalms
19: Regulations regarding the singing of psalms
20: Reverence in prayer
21: The deans of the monastery
22: Sleeping arrangements
23: Excommunication for offences
24: Degrees of excommunication
25: Serious offences
26: Unauthorized association with the excommunicated
27: The abbot’s care for the excommunicated
28: Those who refuse to amend despite frequent rebuke
29: Readmission of brothers who leave the monastery
30: Correction of the young
31: What kind of person the monastery’s cellarer should be
32: The monastery’s tools and property
33: The question of private ownership
34: The question of distribution according to need
35: The weekly kitchen servers
36: Sick brothers
37: The elderly and children
38: The weekly reader
39: The proper amount of food
40: The proper amount of drink
41: Meal times
42: Silence after Compline
43: Latecomers to the work of God or to meals
44: How the excommunicated should make amends
45: Mistakes in the oratory
46: Offences committed elsewhere
47: Announcing the time for the work of God
48: Daily manual labour
49: Observance of Lent
50: Brothers working or travelling far from the oratory
51: Brothers on a short journey
52: The monastery oratory
53: The reception of guests
54: Letters or gifts for monks
55: The brothers’ clothing and footwear
56: The abbot’s table
57: The monastery craftsmen
58: Regulations regarding the admission of brothers
59: The offering of their sons by nobles or by the poor
60: The admission of priests to the monastery
61: The reception of visiting monks
62: Priests of the monastery
63: Rank within the community
64: Election of the abbot
65: The prior of the monastery
66: The porter of the monastery
67: Brothers sent on a journey
68: The assignment of impossible tasks to a brother
69: No one is to defend someone else in the monastery
70: No one is to strike someone else without due cause
71: Mutual obedience
72: Beneficial fervour in a monk
73: This rule is only a start on the path to justice
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