Grimlaicus

Grimlaicus was a cleric who lived in ninth- or tenth-century Francia, probably around Metz.[1] He is known only for the book he wrote on how to lead a solitary life within a monastic community, the Regula Solitariorum. This was the first known rule written for hermits in the Latin West, drawing heavily on the Rule of St Benedict.

References
  1. Scott Bruce, Review of Thornton, Andrew, OSB, ed. and trans.. Grimlaicus: Rule for Solitaries.

Further reading
  • Andrew Thornton, Grimlaicus: Rule for Solitaries (Trappist, Ky., 2011), ISBN 978-0879072001
  • Andrew Thornton, 'Rule Within Rule, Cell Within Cloister: Grimlaicus's Regula Solitariorum', in Cate Gunn and Herbert McAvoy (eds.) Medieval Anchorites in their communities (Woodbridge, 2017), 68-83
  • Charles West, 'Group formation in the Long Tenth Century', in Christine Kleinjung and Stefan Albrecht (eds.), Das lange 10. Jahrhundert – Struktureller Wandel zwischen Zentralisierung und Fragmentierung, äußerem Druck und innerer Krise (Mainz, 2015), pp. 49–59
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