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Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction before the Council of Trent
BRILL 2004; US$ 280.00This survey provides medievalists and Renaissance scholars alike with the first comprehensive introduction to Franciscan texts of religious instruction, ranging from sermon cycles, catechistic manuals and novice training treatises, to the larger texts of liturgical and religious edification. more...
The Daoist Monastic Manual
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 98.99This title offers a complete annotated translation of the 'Fengdao Keije', accompanied by three introductory chapters that outline the development of Daoist organisations, discuss the date and compilation of the work, and introduce key issues of terminology and world view. more...
The Musical World of a Medieval Monk
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00A study of the musical activities of Adémar de Chabannes, the eleventh-century monk. more...
Monastic Spaces and their Meanings
Brepols Publishers 2001; US$ 77.00This monograph focuses on the abbeys of northern England during the period 1132-1400 (Fountains, Rievaulx, Jervaulx, Meaux, Sawley, Roche, Byland and Kirkstall) to facilitate a microhistory of cultural, textual, personnel and architectural comparisons. more...
Dancing in the Water of Life
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99The sixties were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil, and exuberance for Merton during which he closely followed the careening development of political and social activism ? Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Selma, the Catholic Worker Movement, the Vietnam war, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Volume 5 chronicles the approach of... more...
Entering the Silence
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence reflects Merton's struggle to balance his vocation... more...
The Heads of Religious Houses
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 78.00Final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists from 1377 to 1540. more...
The Intimate Merton
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 15.99In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty nine year chronicle deepens and extends the story Thomas Merton recounted and made famous in The Seven Storey... more...
A Rule for Children and Other Writings
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 20.00Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as... more...
Book for the Hour of Recreation
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 25.00María de San José Salazar (1548-1603) took the veil as a Discalced ("barefoot") Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa of Avila's most important collaborators in religious reform and serving as prioress of the Seville and Lisbon convents. Within the parameters of the strict Catholic Reformation in Spain, María fiercely... more...









