Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Regula Benedicti
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Regula Benedicti.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Benedict of Nursia.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-25763-95-136): 'beatus Benedictus loquitur de obedientia perfecta' - Benedict's teaching on obedience (the Regula is where he speaks of it); title not in window, hence discount; ad-reply position