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The Heads of Religious Housesby David M. Smith
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 78.00Final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists from 1377 to 1540. more...
In the Spirit of Happinessby Monks of New Skete
Hachette Book Group USA 2000; US$ 10.99The bestselling authors of "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" show how their strong connections with dogs and the natural world stem from the principles of monastic life. 14 line drawings. more...
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reformby Mechthild Gretsch; Simon Keynes; Andy Orchard
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 50.00This book explores the intellectual foundations of the Benedictine reform in tenth-century England. It examines the importance of the vernacular at Bishop Æthelwold's influential Winchester school. Æthelwold's early career is also examined, showing the influence King Æthelstan's court had on intellectual and spiritual thought. more...
The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval Englandby Joseph A. Gribbin
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 85.00Monasteries were a dominant feature of the landscape of medieval England, but although much critical attention has been devoted to them, comparatively little has been written on the thirty abbeys of the English Premonstratensians (`White Canons'), a gap which this book, the first detailed study since the early 1950s, seeks to fill. more...
Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries by Wybren Scheepsma; David F. Johnson
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 99.00In the last decades of the fourteenth century a new religious movement arose in the Northern Low Countries, that came to be known as the Modern Devotion. It became to influence religious life in a great part of Europe very thoroughly, especially in the fifteenth century. more...
Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynshamby Christopher A. Jones; Simon Keynes; Andy Orchard
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 44.00The Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric composed an important set of Latin liturgical instructions for his fellow monks. This book contains a new edition of the Latin text with a critical apparatus, and the only complete English translation, along with a commentary and substantial introductory chapters. more...
The Heads of Religious Housesby David Knowles; C. N. L. Brooke; Vera C. M. London
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00This is the first of two volumes, which together form a catalogue of abbots and priors, abbesses and prioresses, of English and Welsh monastic houses between 940 and 1377. First published in 1972, it is now reissued with substantial additions and corrections by Professor C. N. L. Brooke. more...
The Memory of the Eyesby Georgia Frank
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. more...
Wandering, Begging Monksby Daniel Caner
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. more...
The Sound of Two Hands Clappingby Georges B. J. Dreyfus
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished title of geshe, weaves together eloquent and moving autobiographical reflections with a historical overview of Tibetan Buddhism and insights into its teachings. more...