ABSTRACT

It gives us particular sadness that many people have for some time brought to our attention the fact that a certain dispute, absolutely not necessary or praiseworthy, between our beloved sons the canons regular of the Order of Saint Augustine of the Lateran congregation and the friars of the Orders of Hermits of the same Blessed Augustine, is being developed

1 R. J. Halliburton, ‘Fact and Fiction in the Life of Saint Augustine. An Essay in Medieval Monastic History and Seventeenth-Century Exegesis’, Recherches Augustiniennes 5 (1968), 15-40. This reference p. 24. For further bibliography, please see the List of Abbreviations and Anne dunlop’s Introduction to this volume.