This is John Cassian's The Institutes, his own early fifth century monastic treatise setting out the rules of communal religious life and his analysis of the eight principal vices that would later be reshaped into the seven deadly sins. As the primary text it is the correct source for what Cassian himself argued, in his own structure and sequence. Its limit is that it is one early monastic author's own rule and teaching, addressed to his own monastic community, not a comprehensive history of how monasticism developed more broadly across the late antique Mediterranean, so a claim about that wider history needs a source addressing it directly.
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John Cassian's own early fifth century primary monastic treatise, with no modern publisher of record, treated at the top tier as that primary text. NotesJohn Cassian's own early monastic treatise on the rules and vices of communal religious life.
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AuthorJohn Cassian
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names John Cassian directly: "This is John Cassian's The Institutes, his own early fifth century monastic treatise setting out the rules of communal religious life and his analysis of the eight principal vices that would later..."
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Vices, 12 claims: 2 well-attested, 4 holds, 6 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Virtues, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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