Religious communities & monasticism books

This new publication celebrates the 900th anniversary of the Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery located in...  Read More >>

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Essays explore aspects of Evagrius's life and address his controversial but long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine,...  Read More >>

The Vita Christi, a spiritual classic of the fourteenth century by the Carthusian Ludolph of Saxony, was an early...  Read More >>

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The entire text of the rule is here plus a lengthy introduction from Jonathan, and detailed explanatory notes throughout...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of fifteen spiritual exercises for people who seek to experience God in everyday life...  Read More >>

A true, never-before-told story-discovered in a secret Vatican archive-of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites...  Read More >>

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Monks and nuns have preserved courtesies, devotions, and contemplative disciplines which the rest of the christian...  Read More >>

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Monastic History By Alfred Wesley Wishart The aim of this volume is...  Read More >>

"In Victorine Christology as in much else, Hugh of St Victor laid the foundations for several generations of creative...  Read More >>

"The late monk the very Rev Father Mettaous el Souriany was a great pillar of monasticism, both or the Sourian Monastery...  Read More >>

Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally...  Read More >>

Recounts the unlikely emergence of a cohesive, interracial fellowship in South Carolina, tracing the history of...  Read More >>

CARTHUSIAN DIURNAL: Little Hours of the Canonical Office, Office of the Blessed Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany...  Read More >>

Utilizes the collection of magic texts from the late Middle Ages at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, to examine the...  Read More >>

William of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1080–1148) became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Thierry in about 1119, holding...  Read More >>

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Noted member of the Cistercian Order, commonly known as Trappists, and noted for its auster, contemplative life...  Read More >>

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