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The Medieval Church · c. 1121–1128
The Customs
Consuetudines
Guigo I · 1083–1136
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What it is
The written form of Carthusian life: the cell, the hair shirt, the weekly walk, the books each monk is lent, and the instruction to copy manuscripts as preaching with the hands.
Why it lasted
The constitution of an order that has kept the same way of life for nine hundred years.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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