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The Medieval Church · c. 810–820
The Crown of Monks
Diadema Monachorum
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel · d. c. 840
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What it is
A hundred short chapters on the virtues, arranged for reading aloud one each evening before the monks retire.
Why it lasted
Designed around a monastery's daily rhythm rather than around a subject, and copied everywhere for that reason.
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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