Description: This is the first English translation of Dom Jean Mabillon's treatise that defends the propriety of study and research as an occupation for monks, and lays out a course of studies for young Benedictines training to be scholars. This edition includes a translator's introduction...
Review Quotes: "McDonald faithfully translated the seventeenth-century French...[t]his three-hundred page book still remains today one of the best manuals on how to become a scholar and an historian. This work is a handbook for all those who seek to be scholars, especially those dedicated to serious study of the history of the Catholic Church." --Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, IN