Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 AD - 543 AD) founded twelve
monasteries, the best known of which was his first monastery at
Monte Cassino in Italy. Benedict wrote a set of rules governing his
monks, the Rule of Saint Benedict, one of the more influential
documents in Western Civilization. Benedict was canonized a saint
in 1220.
Carolinne White was born in London and read Classics and Modern
Languages at St.Hugh's College, Oxford. She wrote a doctoral thesis
on Christian ideas of friendship in the fourth century, published
in 1992. After 2 years spent teaching Latin at UNISA in Pretoria,
she returned to Oxford where she worked on the supplement to the
Liddell and Scott Greek Lexicon and taught Patristic and Medieval
Latin. She now divides her time between work as an assistant editor
on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources,
translation work, and her four children. Her publications include a
translation of the correspondence between Jerome and Augustine
(1990), Early Christian Lives (published by Penguin in 1998), and
an anthology of Early Christian Latin poetry in translation (2000).
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