Ruling the Spirit
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Claire Taylor Jones. Ruling the Spirit
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Ruling the Spirit
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The young should learn to read and sing, so that they are good at practicing the Divine Office; it is not appropriate, however, to learn grammar and the authorities. If sisters who are older than twenty-four do not know the psalter, they should not learn it from nothing. Those who are twenty and have learned nothing of song or music, even if they know the psalter, should not learn anything else.
The Magdalenes were expected to know enough Latin to perform the Office well, but further study is forbidden them. The injunction against grammaticalia et auctores encompasses even more than the corresponding warning in the friars’ Constitutions. In the chapter on students, the friars’ Constitutions enjoin that no one is to study “in libris gentilium et phylosophorum [in the books of the gentiles and philosophers],” and moreover “seculares scientias non addiscant, nec artes quas liberales uocant [they should not learn the secular sciences, not even those arts called liberal].”56 Whereas the young brothers are protected from pagan sources, the Magdalenes were forbidden even from reading Christian authorities.
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