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Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust

Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon...
Author: David Alvarez ISBN: 9780700612147 Format: Hardback	$92.27
The Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, and not a few have spied upon.... Read More >>

Landscapes of Monastic Foundation: The Establishment of Religious Houses in East Anglia, c.650-1200

Landscapes of Monastic Foundation: The Establishment...
Author: Dr Timothy Pestell ISBN: 9781843830627 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the Church of Abingdon, Volume II

Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis: The History of the...
Author: John Hudson (, Reader in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780198207429 Format: Hardback	$551.95
This 12th-century-text provides a wealth of information about, and great insight into, the legal, economic, and... Read More >>

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fécamp (Fécamp, Musée de la Bénédictine, MS 186), II [containing parts II, III and IV]

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fécamp...
Author: David Chadd ISBN: 9781870252201 Format: Hardback	$158.40
Second of two-volume edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fecamp, giving a view of monastic liturgy. Read More >>

The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900

The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China,...
Author: Joseph Tse-Hei Lee ISBN: 9780415933834 Format: Hardback	$284.00
A groundbreaking study of of the relationship between Christianity and collective violence in late nineteenth-century... Read More >>

The Gregorian Dialogues and the Origins of Benedictine Monasticism

The Gregorian Dialogues and the Origins of Benedictine...
Author: Francis Clark ISBN: 9789004128491 Format: Hardback	$388.08
This book condenses and updates the cogent case showing that Gregory the Great did not write the famous Dialogues... Read More >>

The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism

The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics...
Author: M. B. Pranger ISBN: 9780804745246 Format: Hardback	$117.95
In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical... Read More >>

Book for the Hour of Recreation

Book for the Hour of Recreation
Author: Maria de San Jose Salazar , Alison Weber ISBN: 9780226734552 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Maria de San Jose Salazar took the veil as a discalced (barefoot) Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa... Read More >>

Book for the Hour of Recreation

Book for the Hour of Recreation
Author: Maria de San Jose Salazar , Alison Weber ISBN: 9780226734545 Format: Hardback	$163.95
Maria de San Jose Salazar took the veil as a discalced (barefoot) Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa... Read More >>

Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860

Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The...
Author: Diane Batts Morrow ISBN: 9780807854013 Format: Paperback	$73.79
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A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan

A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan...
Author: P. Renee Baernstein ISBN: 9780415927178 Format: Hardback	$62.00
In this volume, P. Renee Baernstein recreates the daily life of the nuns of San Paolo convent in Renaissance Milan.... Read More >>

Saint Benedict: a Rule for Beginners

Saint Benedict: a Rule for Beginners
Author: Julian Stead ISBN: 9781565480988 Format: Paperback	$31.55
After an introduction and some selected passages of Gregory the Greta's Life of St.Benedict, the author presents... Read More >>

The Day-to-Day Life of the Desert Fathers In Fourth-Century Egypt

The Day-to-Day Life of the Desert Fathers In Fourth-Century...
Author: Lucien Regnault ISBN: 9781879007345 Format: Paperback	$58.08
Founders of Christian eremitism, these heroes of asceticism and virtue earned a reputation as much by their lifestyle... Read More >>

Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero

Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero
Author: Michael Ford ISBN: 9780809105526 Format: Hardback	$32.95
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Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery

Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery...
Author: Mary Jo Weaver ISBN: 9780253341846 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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Benedictine Roots of Faith in Australia

Benedictine Roots of Faith in Australia
Author: Marion Sitzmann , Kate Pennisi ISBN: 9781879007062 Format: Paperback	$47.52
The fascinating story of three Benedictine monks who helped establish the Church in Australia. One was a missionary... Read More >>

Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind

Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind
Author: Jay Rubenstein ISBN: 9780415939706 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Sister Mary Bernard Deggs , Virginia Meacham Gould ISBN: 9780253215437 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Among New Orleans' most compelling stories is that of the Sisters of the Holy Family, which was founded in the 19th... Read More >>

Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity

Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the...
Author: Daniel Caner ISBN: 9780520233249 Format: Hardback	$122.95
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Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform

Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and...
Author: Constance H Berman , Constance H Berman ISBN: 9781580440363 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937

Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937...
Author: Barbara Walsh ISBN: 9780716527459 Format: Hardback	$130.68
There is much ignorance regarding the life of nuns because they have been largely ignored by historians. Barbara... Read More >>

Beyond the Market: Transactions, Property and Social Networks in Monastic Galicia, 1200-1300

Beyond the Market: Transactions, Property and Social...
Author: Reyna Pastor , Esther Pascua ISBN: 9789004119536 Format: Hardback	$538.56
This book provides a new and fascinating view of the peasant society in thirteenth-century Galicia (Spain). The... Read More >>

Christ's Poor Men: The Carthusians in Britain

Christ's Poor Men: The Carthusians in Britain
Author: Glyn Coppack , Mick Aston ISBN: 9780752419619 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Founded in 1088 by St Bruno at the Grande Chatreuse (hence their name) in France, the Carthusians came to Britain... Read More >>

The Abbey Up the Hill: A Year in the Life of a Monastic Day Tripper

The Abbey Up the Hill: A Year in the Life of a Monastic...
Author: Carol Bonomo ISBN: 9780819219121 Format: Paperback	$54.99
The author, who spent many years searching for a spiritual home, reflects on her first year as a Benedictine oblate--a... Read More >>

The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages

The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts...
Author: Andrew Jotischky (, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Lancaster) ISBN: 9780198206347 Format: Hardback	$391.00
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