Summary

Summary

Dating:

1132 PV proposed these statutes at the general assembly of 1132 which brought together more than 200 priories and 1200 monks [acc. to Odericus Vitalis]

1136/7/8 Innocent II gives bull granting PV right to reform Cluniac monasteries; 29 January 1136.

1144 PV mentions a ‘great gathering of our monks” (perhaps that year?) [cf. Letters, I, 293, 398]

1146PV only promulgated them at the Chapter meeting in 1146 after getting the authorization to correct the way of monastic life from Innocent II,[1]. The dating arises from the prologue of the Statuta, in which Peter refers to his abbacy as having begun 24 years before in 1122 (thus making the dating ca. 1146/7).

1148A second document followed in 1148, Dispositio rei familiaris Cluniacensis(PL189, col. 1047-54).

The De miraculis also provides an account of another attempt to implement the reform, which was undertaken by Matthew of Albano. [This text begun august 1135, later added to in 1142/ 1143].

Acc. to Knowles there is no indication of the relation of the 1132 decrees to the Statuta. “Retour” suggests they are the same.

The dating of some of the statutes show they were composed earlier, some later. St. 19 was issued while work on the church was still in progress, which was consecrated by Innocent II in 1130 [though this may not mean that it was finished then]; Statute 61 refers to a pratice only instituted in St. 25. And Statutes 63-76 might be something else, given that Peter seems to sum up stuff in Stat. 62, and the latter statutes seem to repeat what comes at the beginning. These last 14 only exist in one manuscript, added to the first recension of the text. The causae might also be added only when they were collected together.The single statute surviving outside the collection, or the specific application of St. 44 found in the cartulary of Longpoint [cf. Le cartulaire du prieuré de Notre-Dame de Longpoint. (Lyon, 1879): 69-70.] has a causa. [taken from Statuta Petri Venerabilis, 22-24]

Description:

introduces modifications, addresses abuses, clarifies points of the RB. Offers both statuta and the reason for its modification. Acc. to PV, there is eternal and human law, the second is changeable: ie. fasts, vigils, manual labour, corporal penitence. PV emphasizes that popes and his predecessors have changed custom from necessity or for rationality. Basis in moderation. It is also a justification (I believe) for the future, to defend his changes and ensure their complete incorporation. I think, moreover, that the reasons he uses to justify changes are political- justifications that all would accept- which hide his desire to implement ideological changes (ex. Stat. 55)

-76 + 2 statuta in total: celebration of divine office (9); penitence/ abstinence (6); silence (5); reception (5); infirmary (4); recruitment (4); charity (2); servants (1); nuns (1).

A. Prologue: PV offers a long justification for making changes; changes made not according to his will/ desire, but following the precepts of the RB, the opinion of senioresand with the assent of the entire chapter general.

B. Liturgy: (20) •matins and vespers must always be celebrated on domincal days •simplified some offices, suppressed psalms, established new readings, new chants, imposed the recitation of the credo. •established a marial cult (daily mass for mary) • imposed a feast of the Transfiguration, the inventioof the Holy Cross •liturgy for the dead (new vigils), to limit acts of mercy on account of dead. •harmonization of chant and silence •prohibition of private masses during conventual mass •when all candles are to be lit

C. Order and Discipline: •restraint in eating/ drinking •emphasis on silence •simplicity in clothing •suppression of no longer significant customs: shoe washing, the siesta •recruitment: habit not before 20, priest not before 25

Constable suggests that from letter 150 (refering to a decision concerning the reception of Cistercian monks in Cluniac houses), it can be seen that the list of statutes is incomplete.

Constable (intro to Stat., p. 24) refers to customs, as “not simply what had been done for a certain length of time, but what had been properly done. Thus in the causaof Statute 72 he spoke of an abuse which has already changed into custom in such a way that people think it is a custom. Constable suggests that novelty could correct unworthy custom, because by definition proper custom would not need to be changed.

Reception

PV Statutes 1, 12, 35, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45 were reissued by Hugh V as 5, 6, 11, 17, 19, 26, 44, 55 (1200)

PV Statutes 45 as Hugh V, 21 (1205/6)

PV Statute 35 as Henry I, stat. 71 (1314)

Chapter Headings

Preface

1. De repausationibus cantantium [St. 19, HUGH V 1200]

2. De dominicali officio festivitatibus duodecim lectionum [Herr, 1, 50; Ul 1, 11; CA 64]

3. De commemoratione dominicae dei

4. De genuflexionibus die dominico [Herr, I, 60, 68, 21, 58, 66…; Ul 2, 29]

5. De transfiguratione Domini

6. De missis privatis [Herr, I, 71; Ul II, 30]

7. De sonitu signorum ante maiorum missam [Herr I, 2, 6, 23; Ul 3, 4]

8. De anniversariis [Pal. f. 128r]

9. De prima dominca Adventus

10. De abstinentia ab adipe sexta feria

11. De abstientia a pigmento [Herr, 2, 15; I, 11, I, 8, I, 12]

12. De abstinentia carnibus

13. De ieiuniis vigiliarum festivitatum

14. De ieiuniis regularibus

15. De abstinentia ab adipe in Adventu [CA b 17; LT 4; Ul 1, 44

16. De pannis prohibitis

17. De pellibus prohibitis

18. De pannis prohibitis

19. De silentio in monasterio [LT, 129, 154, 192, 194; Herr, 2, 20, I, 23, I, 17; Ul 2, 3, III, 26]

20. De silentio in Quadragesima

21. De locutionibus in claustro

22. De silentio ad mensam

23. De clausura regularium domorum

24. De famulis in infirmaria

25. De scilla in infirmaria

26. De meridianis ieiunorum [CA b 1, 37;

27. De vasis vinariis

28. De ablutione calciarum

29. De vestibus fratrum equitantium

30. De involucris crurum

31. De psalmis in duodecim lectionum festivitatibus

32. De anniversariis

33. De reliquiis refectorii et infirmariae

34. De temporibus

35. De monachorum susceptione

36. De pueris non recipiendis

37. De tempore probationis

38. De novitiorum benedictione

39. De opere manuum

40. De monachis iter agentibus

41. De plenum ordinem tenendo

42. De silentio in parvis monasteriis

43. De sacerdotum aetate

44. De donationibus et venditionibus terrarum et thesaurorum

45. De procuratoribus

46. De famulis priorum

47. De habitationibus sanctimonalium

48. De familiaribus

49. De luminibus in dormitario

50. De lectionibus infra octavas Assumptionis et apostolorum Petri et Pauli

51. De gratiis post mensam

52. De accensione cereorum coronae

53. De clausura novi monasterii

54. De missa cotidiana in honore beatae Mariae

55. De abbate in capitulum veniente

56. De pueris scholaribus

57. De credo ad missam maiorem

58. De prosa Caeleste organumNativitate Domini

59. De antiphonis feria quinta Quadragesimae

60. De horis beatae Mariae in ecclesia infirmorum

61. De Prima in capella infirmorum recitanda

62. De cruce in unctione monachorum infirmorum

63. De usu staminiarum in flagellationibus

64. De canistris ad suscipiendis reliquias

65. De sedendo ad missas

66. De pueris scholaribus

67. De pneumis

68. De hymnis propriis

69. De custodibus in dormitorio

70. De vestibus famulorum

71. De dicendo Ipsum auditein responsoriis et antiphoniis

72. De missis privatis Nativitate Domini

73. De vino ad missas Natalis Domini

74. De cantando Kyriein quinque praecipuis festis

75. De festis sanctae Crucis

76. De antiphona Salve Regina

[1]Consult BC col 1382: Solet annuere Sedes apostolica