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The Medieval Church · c. 816–821
The Concord of Rules
Concordia Regularum
Benedict of Aniane · c. 747–821
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What it is
Benedict's rule set clause by clause beside every other monastic rule the compiler could find, to show that it summed them all up.
Why it lasted
The scholarly justification for imposing a single rule across the empire — the moment Western monasticism became Benedictine by law.
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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