In his TraitĂ© de la saintetĂ© et des devoirs de la vie monastique (1683; âTreatise on the Holiness and the Duties of the Monastic Lifeâ), RancĂ© attacked learningâthe central activity of the Mauristsâas being contrary to the spirit of monastic life, which he believed should be confinedâŠ
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