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The Medieval Church · c. 828
On the Instruction of the Laity
De Institutione Laicali
Jonas of Orléans · c. 780–843
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What it is
A guide for married laypeople on marriage, work, almsgiving, and the duties of a household, written for a count and his wife.
Why it lasted
One of the first sustained attempts to describe a serious Christian life that is not monastic.
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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