Libellus de scripturis et verbis patrum (Little Book of the Writings and Words of the Fathers)
Libellus de scripturis et verbis patrum
A reworked, slightly shorter recension of John of Fécamp's Confessio theologica, deliberately edited to remove Rule-of-Benedict-specific passages and made accessible to noble laywomen outside the monastery. Scholars have identified this recension as intended primarily for women of the noble class who were lovers of the contemplative life but not professed religious. It circulated almost entirely under the false title Meditationes of Saint Augustine, making it one of the most-read but least-recognised devotional works of the high Middle Ages. Because it dressed monastic affective prayer in lay-accessible language it functioned as a bridge text, bringing interior affective spirituality to court households that had no direct monastic formation.