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Benedict of Aniane, The Emperor's Monk: Ardo's Life. Translated by Allen Cabaniss; foreword by Annette Grabowsky and Clemens Radi. [Cistercian Studies Series, 220.] (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications. 2008. Pp. viii, 112. $13.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-879-07320-6.)
This is a small but not insignificant book.There is the foreword "The Second Benedict: A Review of Recent Scholarship" (on St. Benedict and on Ardo' s Life of Benedict, pp. 1-26), the "Translator's Introduction" (pp. 27-51), acknowledgments (pp. 53-55), an "Editor's Note" (pp. 57-58), the Life of Benedict of Aniane (pp. 59-109), and finally "A Short Index of Names" (pp. 111-12).
The "Editor's Note" (p. 57) states that Cabaniss' s translation was first published in England in 1979 and included in the collection Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (University...