3,381円 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 readers can orientate themselves to a more reflect...

450円 The Benedictine Abbeys of Ducal Normandy as Places of Power in Medieval Times by Ryan Evans offers an insightful and captivating exploration into the towering influence of Benedictine monasteries in shaping medieval society. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Viking invasions, the rise of t...

164円 "Shiva Purana (ശിവപുരാണം)" by Kunchan Nambiar presents an innovative rendition of the revered Hindu text, focusing on the legends and lore of Lord Shiva. Known for his mastery in blending satire with classical themes, Nambiar adapts these ancient stories with a distinctive touch of poetic eleganc...

7,328円 Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic ...

3,100円 The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid devel...

5,073円 In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It includes chapters on ...

4,368円 Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His innovative collections of short chapters mea...

8,456円 Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface ...

5,355円 In Bounded Wilderness**, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072).** The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of ma...

4,368円 In Dark Age Nunneries**, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives.** It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingiaーa politically and ...

1,267円 This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinar...

1,400円 "Chemins cisterciens" se veut une proposition de cheminement et de découverte d’une manière de vivre (conversasio) dans un monde en quête de sens. Les premiers Pères cisterciens livrent ici leur expérience personnelle d’une étonnante actualité fondée sur l’écoute de la Parole, ruminée dans une vi...