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Why a 1,500-year-old monastic rulebook still challenges what it means to live a meaningful life
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Why a 1,500-year-old monastic rulebook still challenges what it means to live a meaningful life
Saint Benedict delivering his rule to the monks of his order, Monastery of St. Gilles (from a manuscript made in 1129). WikiCommons
What might a sixth-century monastic rulebook have to say about how we live today? Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval, the centrepiece of this summer’s exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, takes up that question. As curators, we bring present-day habits and assumptions into dialogue with a seemingly distant counterpoint: medieval monasticism,
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