Introduction --
Monks and regular canons in the twelfth The state of the question --
A new approach --
Part 1: Regular canons and the concern for edification --
1. The sources --
Treatises of practical spiritual advice --
Two groups of sources --
Regular canons and the right to preach --
2. The individual treatises --
The compilation in MS Ottoboni Lat. 175 and the Regula Clericorum --
The Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini, Odo of St. Vincent's letters, and Hugh of St. Victor's De Institutione Novitorum --
The commentary in MS Vienna 2207 and Philip of Harvengt's De Institutione Clericorum --
Richard of St. Victor's De Questionibus, the Bridlington Dialogue, and Adam of Dryburgh's Liber de Ordine --
3. The context --
The meaning of example --
The concern for edification in it context --
Conclusion --
Part 2: The Monastic focus on the individual as learner --
1. The sources --
Treatises of practical spiritual advice --
The Benediction Rule --
2. The early twelfth Individual treatises --
The eleventh-century John of Fruttuaria's De Vitae Ordine --
Rupert of Deutz's Super Quaedam Capitula Regulae, Abelard's Rule for Nuns, and Peter in the Deacon's Commentaries --
Bernard of Clairvaux's De Gradibus Humilitatis and De Praecepto et Dispensatione, and Aelred of Reievaulx's Speculum Caritatis --
3. The later twelfth Individual treatises --
Hildegard of Bingen's Explanatio Regulae, Joachim of Flora's Commentary, The De Novitiis Instruendis, the Commentary from Pontigny, and Adam of Perseigne's letters --
Peter of Celle's De Disciplina Claustrali, Arnulf of Boheries's Speculum Monachorum, and Stephen of Salley's Speculum Novitii --
Stephen of Paris's Expositio Super The exception that proves the rule --
4. Differences and similarities --
Psychological subtlety, community, and monastic attitudes toward example --
The idea of the individual as learner in its twelfth-century context --
Conclusion.