Religious communities & monasticism books

English summary: Foundational documents could provide monastic communities with answers to the question Who are...  Read More >>

Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort...  Read More >>

On the works of Nilus the Ascetic; the genuine and extensive fifth century correspondence and the spurious romance....  Read More >>

In this searingly personal spiritual exploration, Wilkes treads a pilgrim's path that takes him behind the walls...  Read More >>

Band 3 - vom Kulturkampf bis ins 21. Jahrhundert - behandelt einen uberaus bedeutenden Zeitraum: Die Positionierung...  Read More >>

This is a group of spiritual short stories. Some of them are true, others are true in part, the rest are fiction....  Read More >>

Preaching was a much admired, much studied, and much practiced art by both abbots and secular clergy. This handbook...  Read More >>

The caves that make up the coenobitic Monastery of St. Euthymios include several interesting and well-preserved...  Read More >>

Green Monasticism is a collection of articles and talks from the third Gethesemani Encounter, which took place in...  Read More >>

Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism.  Read More >>

'I have plucked the finest flowers of the unmown meadow and worked them into a row which I now offer to you', wrote...  Read More >>

Defining spirituality as 'the dynamic unity between the content of a faith and the way in which it is lived by historically...  Read More >>

In the Early Middle Ages, the irish temperament—individualistic, poetic, and deeply loyal to family—produced great...  Read More >>

Amadeus became a monk of Clairvaux in 1125, just about the time its abbot, Bernard, began to be noticed by the Church...  Read More >>

These are the letters of Adam of Perseigne, Spiritual director to kings and clerics, nuns and nobles and adviser...  Read More >>

The burgundian reformer abbot draws a picture of the perfect frontier bishop, and holds him up as a model for bishops...  Read More >>

The young abbot meditates on the singular role of the Virgin Mother of Christ 'to satisfy [his] own devotion', and...  Read More >>

The monk and the knight—the two quintessentially medieval European heroes—were combined in the Knights Templar,...  Read More >>

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons,...  Read More >>

Best known in the Middle Ages as a scriptural exegete, Bede here provides a running gloss on the Letters of James,...  Read More >>

In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, The Song of Songs was a favorite book of Cistercian monks. Bernard...  Read More >>

The son of Burgundian nobility, Bernard admitted after years of struggle that humility remained for him the most...  Read More >>

A scholar turned monk, Isaac combined the increasingly technical vocabulary of the cathedral schools with the spiritual...  Read More >>

This book tells the life of a saint by a saint. Malachy O'Morgair spent his life and considerable energies exhorting,...  Read More >>

Meditation on Christ's humanity and a letter of instruction on a disciplined spiritual life for his sister, epitomize...  Read More >>