The Monastic Rules of Visigothic Iberia - eTheses Repository ...

INTRODUCTION:
Table of Contents
0.1 Outline of Thesis i - ii
0.2 Context of Thesis ii - v
0.3 Rationale of Thesis v - viii
0.4 Terms and Definitions viii - xii
CHAPTER ONE: PRECEPTIVE LITERATURE AND MONASTIC RULES
1.1 Introduction 1 - 3
1.2 The Need to Regulate Monastic Life 3 – 5
1.3 Defining a Monastic Rule 5 – 14
1.4.1 The De institutione uirginum et de contemptu mundi 14 – 15
1.4.2 The Epistle 16 – 21
1.4.3 Pragmatism 21 – 23
1.4.4 Overall Conclusion: A Monastic Rule? 24
CHAPTER TWO: THE VISIGOTHIC MONASTIC RULES AND THEIR
VISIGOTHIC CONTEXT
2.1 Introduction 25 - 26
2.2 The Visigothic Monastic Rules 26 - 28
2.3 Visigothic Monastic Literature 29 - 31
2.4 The Monastic Rule and Their Historical Context 31 - 33
2.5 Daily Life: The Opus Dei 33 - 35
2.6 The Opus Manuum 35 - 41
2.7 Monasteries in Visigothic Society 41 - 52
2.8 Regional Variation and the Peculiarity of Galician Monasticism 52 - 61
2.9 Conclusions 61 - 62
CHAPTER THREE: LITERACY, MONASTIC RULES AND TEXTUAL
COMMUNITIES
3.1 Introduction: Literacy, Monasticism and Visigothic Iberia 63 - 65
3.2 Understanding Literacy 65 - 66
3.3 Literacy and Early Christianity 67 - 68