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Narratives of a New Order
Brepols Publishers 2002; US$ 77.00The author examines the classic genre for inventing a past, argueing that historical narratives of the English Cistercians helped define the characteristics of the new Cistercian monastic order as well as new political orders of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. more...
Send me God
Brepols Publishers 2003; US$ 95.00In the early 13th century the diocese of Liège witnessed an extraordinary religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints' lives from that region. Holy women were held up by their biographers as models of orthodoxy and miraculous powers. Less familiar but no less fascinating are the male saints of the region. In this volume... more...
Dialogues with Silence
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99An intensely personal devotional book from Thomas Merton, the ultimate spiritual writer of our time, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and rarely-seen drawings. The only Merton gift book available. Dialogues with Silence contains a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters,... more...
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00A study of religious silence and sign language in an early medieval abbey. more...
Portmahomack
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 148.99During the 19th and 20th centuries a trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack led to the first exposure in 1996 of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. This book describes the discovery and excavation of an early... more...
The Short Chronicle
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 25.00Jeanne de Jussie (1503–61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle , she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent—devious... more...
Contemplative Prayer
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences?from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism?to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems... more...
Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries
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...
Wandering, Begging Monks
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...
Emergence of Monasticism
Wiley 2008; US$ 76.95The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism. Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life. more...









