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The Medieval Church · c. 970–973
The Typikon of the Great Lavra
Athanasius the Athonite · c. 920–c. 1003
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What it is
The founding rule of the first great monastery on Mount Athos, setting out the daily office, the common table, and the balance between community and solitary cells.
Why it lasted
The constitutional document of Athonite monasticism, which has run continuously by these arrangements for over a thousand 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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