Religious communities & monasticism books

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This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic...  Read More >>

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An account of the spiritual, intellectual, and material lives of early monks who lived at the edge of the world....  Read More >>

In the fourth century A.D. the deserts of Egypt saw the birth of Christian monasticism under the tutelage of the...  Read More >>

Although the lines of the palm of the hand are barely visible in the early light, the monks of the Tofukuji monastery...  Read More >>

An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

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Medieval Monasticism is a bibliography meant as a guide to medieval monasticism, giving direction to the most important...  Read More >>

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The author has concentrated upon the Order as an institution in the crusader states and as a powerful international...  Read More >>

An empirical study on construction of identity by members of “monastic” communities across a plurality of religious...  Read More >>

An inspiring narrative history of the oldest congregation of Benedictine monasteries in the United States.   Commissioned...  Read More >>

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