It is one of the most important texts in the history of the West, a book whose capital significance is often overlooked, as if we did not know where to classify it in the Christian literature of Late Antiquity and from the Middle Ages, between the Confessions of Saint Augustine and The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Like these two works, the Rule of Saint Benedict belongs to the very particular category of masterly books which can be described, without fear of exaggerating, as "lifts to Heaven".
The volume published by the “Bouquins” collection under the title Les Bénédictins offers a unique approach to the 73 chapters of the Rule . They are generally considered from a historical point of view, but also, and more broadly, from a sociological, philosophical and spiritual point of view. Thus in the deep texts given by dom Jean-Charles Nault, the father abbot of Saint-Wandrille, to this sum directed by Daniel-Odon Hurel, historian specialist in monasticism. The Rule of Saint
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