Grimlaicus

Grimlaicus or Grimlaic was a cleric who lived in ninth- or tenth-century Francia, probably around Metz.[1] He is known only for the book he wrote on how to lead a solitary life within a monastic community, the Regula Solitariorum. This was the first known rule written for hermits in the Latin West, drawing heavily on the Rule of St Benedict. The Regula begins with a prologue, followed by 69 sections, or chapters.[2] Grimlaicus dedicated the compilation to his namesake, a priest. The latter, Mabillon conjectures, lived at the papal court during the pontificate of Formosus.[3]

References
  1. Scott Bruce, Review of Thornton, Andrew, OSB, ed. and trans.. Grimlaicus: Rule for Solitaries.
  2. “Grimlaicus: Rule for Solitaries”: Citydesert: WordPress
  3. The Codex Palatino-Vaticanus, no. 830. (Texts, translations and indices.) MacCarthy, Bartholomew; Marianus Scotus,1028-1082; p.5

Further reading
  • Andrew Thornton, Grimlaicus: Rule for Solitaries (Trappist, Ky., 2011), ISBN 978-0879072001
  • Andrew Thornton, 'Rule Within Rule, Cell Within Cloister: Grimlaicus's Regula Solitariorum', in Cate Gunn and Herbert McAvoy (eds.) Medieval Anchorites in their communities (Woodbridge, 2017), 68-83
  • Charles West, 'Group formation in the Long Tenth Century', in Christine Kleinjung and Stefan Albrecht (eds.), Das lange 10. Jahrhundert – Struktureller Wandel zwischen Zentralisierung und Fragmentierung, äußerem Druck und innerer Krise (Mainz, 2015), pp. 49–59
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