(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034489)
Three works of fifth-century monastic leader Neilos of Ancyra, for the first time in English translation, introduced and annotated by a leading scholar of early ChristianityNeilos of Ancyra (sometimes mistakenly called Nilus of Sinai) was a learned a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034472)
Three works of fifth-century monastic leader Neilos of Ancyra, for the first time in English translation, introduced and annotated by a leading scholar of early ChristianityNeilos of Ancyra (sometimes mistakenly called Nilus of Sinai) was a learned a...Loe edasi...
Was England their homecoming - or another exile? Discover the untold story behind one of the most turbulent chapters in British religious history.When English Benedictine nuns fled Revolutionary France and the Low Countries, they expected refuge in t...Loe edasi...
"e;Pat OConnells synthesis of Mertons spirituality offers us a hope-filled book when hope is in short supply."e; - From the Foreword by Bonnie B. ThurstonIn Thomas Mertons Holistic Spirituality, renowned Merton scholar Patrick F. OConnel...Loe edasi...
This book reviews the research that has been generated by the Abbey complex on the eastern cliff-top, and relates it to the heritage context, the subject of a major new initiative by English Heritage and Scarborough Borough Council....Loe edasi...
This book reviews the research that has been generated by the Abbey complex on the eastern cliff-top, and relates it to the heritage context, the subject of a major new initiative by English Heritage and Scarborough Borough Council....Loe edasi...
Inspired by a vivid account of St Francis - where he didnt merely pray but became prayer - Becoming Prayer introduces readers to the heart of Franciscan spirituality. Drawing on the enduring wisdom of Francis, Clare and generations of Franciscans, i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501784675)
Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe offers a new perspective on the abbey at Cluny, one of the medieval Christianitys most influential institutions. Most historical approaches to Cluny have embraced a predictable "e;rise and fa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501784996)
Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe offers a new perspective on the abbey at Cluny, one of the medieval Christianitys most influential institutions. Most historical approaches to Cluny have embraced a predictable "e;rise and fa...Loe edasi...
This volume offers an original, comprehensive study of the economic foundations and estate management of mendicant orders in late medieval Hungary, setting this within a broader East-Central European context. Focusing on the Franciscans, Dominicans,...Loe edasi...
Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 - c.1150) created the famous Trees of Vices and Virtues in De fructu carnis et spiritus, which he prepared before 1133 for illiterate lay brothers. This investigation provides an edition and translation of that work and defin...Loe edasi...
The Latin sermons published for the first time are attributed to an otherwise unknown Franciscan friar referred to as Frater Petrus. This second volume of his Collationes de tempore, covering the First Sunday after Easter through Ordinary Time, compr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416178)
In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the fear of God have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for piety. Focusing on monastic communities in late antiquity across the eastern Mediterranean, this book e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416178)
In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the fear of God have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for piety. Focusing on monastic communities in late antiquity across the eastern Mediterranean, this book e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784402)
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental im...Loe edasi...
Sari: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040779774)
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charite, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784099)
This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core of Christian ritual and belief consumed many hours of the Benedictine m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040774847)
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental im...Loe edasi...
Sari: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040792971)
The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but...Loe edasi...
Sari: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040798768)
The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040782668)
Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040788653)
Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040778944)
This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core of Christian ritual and belief consumed many hours of the Benedictine m...Loe edasi...
Sari: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040795293)
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charite, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis...Loe edasi...
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in res...Loe edasi...
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in res...Loe edasi...
Within the heart of the modern church, a quiet crisis brews: the steady decline in church attendance-a trend acutely visible among the Gen Z cohort, who holds a deep-seated yearning for authentic connection and an aspiration to thrive within a transp...Loe edasi...
Within the heart of the modern church, a quiet crisis brews: the steady decline in church attendance-a trend acutely visible among the Gen Z cohort, who holds a deep-seated yearning for authentic connection and an aspiration to thrive within a transp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Aug-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034328)
Studies in Christianity in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt by some of the worlds leading Coptic Studies scholarsChristianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Sohag region of Upper Egypt from as early as the fourth century...Loe edasi...
Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods.Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly ac...Loe edasi...
Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods.Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly ac...Loe edasi...
A monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesuss teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today. Too often Christianity has been hijacked by the superego and the...Loe edasi...
Every day for more than a decade, members of the World Community for Christian Meditation worldwide receive a brief reflection, Daily Wisdom, from Laurence Freeman, a Benedictine monk and leader of the community. In just a few sentences, each day rea...Loe edasi...
There is nothing conventional about the life and religious journey of Grace Costin. After a family tragedy caused her to reject God, she began on the long path back to faith through pioneering social work, a solo journey across the United States and...Loe edasi...
Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life. Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and-most disturbingly...Loe edasi...
Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life. Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and-most disturbingly...Loe edasi...
2025 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, History of Theology, Church Fathers and MothersRevised edition of Tim Vivians Becoming Fire continues to inspire readers with ancient wisdom for modern Christian contemplation.The sayings of the de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jan-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300280432)
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and ma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040233153)
The history of Christian literature took a new turn in the 8th century when monks in the monasteries of Palestine began to write theology and saints lives in Arabic; they also instituted a veritable programme for translating the Bible and other Chri...Loe edasi...
Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918 brings to light a largely unknown of history of the Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by Catholic Sisters. Elisabeth C. Davis examines four sch...Loe edasi...
Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918 brings to light a largely unknown of history of the Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by Catholic Sisters. Elisabeth C. Davis examines four sch...Loe edasi...
Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918 brings to light a largely unknown of history of the Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by Catholic Sisters. Elisabeth C. Davis examines four sch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040259511)
In the history of Christian thought, St Bonaventure stands out as the pre-eminent Franciscan philosopher of the 13th century and as a key figure in the development of the spiritual theology of the Church. The four studies which constitute this volume...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040259566)
In the history of Christian thought, St Bonaventure stands out as the pre-eminent Franciscan philosopher of the 13th century and as a key figure in the development of the spiritual theology of the Church. The four studies which constitute this volume...Loe edasi...
The heart as an image of love is found everywhere in popular culture, yet devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is often dismissed as excessive piety. This rich and deep tradition, that is rooted in scripture and reaches back to the earliest Christia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040244906)
The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040235638)
This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the golden age of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was at t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040242209)
In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040242667)
This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the golden age of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was at t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040232460)
In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over...Loe edasi...
