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Volume 5, Issue 1
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Using a hitherto-ignored version of the so-called of the first general chapter of Benedictine abbots of 1131, this paper argues that the three manuscript witnesses of that text reflect different stages in a cumulative process of legislation taking place presumably between 1131 and 1135 (with additions up to the early 1140s). It also attempts a reconstruction of the complex relationship between the and contemporary legislative documents from the Cistercian, Premonstratensian, and especially Cluniac movements. Appended is an edition of the as documented in Douai, Bibliothèque Marcelline-Desbordes Valmore, 540, folios 69r-v, with comparative notes on the previously edited version in BnF, MS Latins, 2677, folios 83v-84r, and the retrievable fragments of a lost copy from Mont-Saint-Quentin.

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