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The Medieval Church · c. 965–975
The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict
Æthelwold of Winchester · c. 904–984
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What it is
Benedict's rule in English, made so that nuns and monks without Latin could hear their own rule and understand what they had promised.
Why it lasted
The earliest vernacular translation of the rule in Europe, and evidence that English women's houses were being taken seriously.
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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