Benedictines in the Middle Ages, Hardcover by Clark, James G., ISBN 1843836238, ISBN-13 9781843836230, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Men and women who followed the rule set out by Benedict of Nursia (c. 480- c. 547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous, and widespread religious order of the Latin Middle Ages, says Clark (history, U. of Bristol, Britain), and by the close of the 11th century it was the dominant form of monastic observance practiced in the West. He profiles the order from the perspectives of the making of a European order, observance, society, culture, the later Middle Ages, and reformations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()