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General
Internet theology resources
Detailed documents on monastic history I: pre-Benedict; monastic history II: Benedict to the Reformation; rule of Benedict; comps list
St Theodore of Studium
The major monastic figure of early ninth-century Byzantium: reform rules [d.826] (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Monasticism
in the Orthodox Church (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

Eastern Origins
Palladius: the Lausiac history
Lives of early ascetics, monks and nuns (Medieval Sourcebook)
Eastern monasticism
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
Life of St Anthony
written between 356 and 362 (ORB)
St Anthony
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
St Basil the Great
his person and his preaching (Albert Michael Seul)
St Basil the Great
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
Studion
(Latin Studium) the most important monastery at Constantinople (Catholic Encyclopaedia)

Celtic monasticism
Life of St Columba
established the monastery at Iona was one of the most famous of the Irish missionary saints ((Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Rule of St Columba
sixth Century (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Life of St Declan of Ardmore
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

The Benedictine movement
The Rule of St Benedict
c.530 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Rule of St Benedict
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
Second Dialogue
Life of St Benedict (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Rule of St Augustine
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
The life and miracles of St Cuthbert
Bishop of Lindisfarne, 721 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
The lives of the Holy Abbots of Weremouth
and Jarrow Benedict, Ceolfrid, Easterwine, Sigfrid, and Huetberht (IMS)
Rudolf of Fulda
Life of Leoba, c. 836 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
The American Benedictine
file (American Benedictine Academy)

Western monasticism - after 900 AD
The Benedictines
Herman of Tournai
on the restoration of the monastery of Saint Martin's of Tournai (Kansas University)
Domesday Book
Manors of the Abbey of St Peter, Winchester, 1086 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Jocelin of Brakelond
chronicle of the Abbey of St Edmund's (1173-1202) (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Cluny
Foundation charter of Cluny
910 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
St Odo
(Catholic Encyclopaedia)
The charters of the monastery of Cluny
(University of Muenster)
The Cistercians
Cistercian Order
(St John's Minnesota)
The Cistercians
(St John's College)
William of St. Thierry
A description of Clairvaux, c.1143 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Two accounts of the early career of St Bernard
c.1150 (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Women's monasticism
A collection of resources
for the study of women's religious communities, 500-1500, [at Yale]. This includes a database of 1146 women's communities and a documents page, with documents from women's communities at Laycock (13th century), San Sisto (thirteenth century), Santa Francesca Romana (fifteenth century) (Matrix)

Other
A complete translation of the surviving founder's Typika and Testaments The texts are all in PDF format, edited by John Thomas and Angela Constantinides Hero. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)

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