Bernado Olivera speaks out of deep spiritual experience and wisdom, genuine humility and compassion for the human condition, with flashes of good humor: A native of South America who is solidly gro…
This excellent translation of all extant 13th-century Middle English anchoritic writings is a fine addition to a series for which many libraries should have standing orders. This volume is especial…
Monasticism arose from the ruins of the Roman Empire and by the opening of the Dark Ages it had become the refuge of Christian piety. This book is a glowing description of monasticism..
This interdisciplinary and comparative series features outstanding monographs that treat significant aspects of life and throught in Western Europe and the Near East. The objective of each is to ho…
New Monasticism by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove offers an insider's perspective into the life of the New Monastics and shows how this movement is dependent on the church for stability, diversity, and …
From St. Francis to Mother Teresa, from the caves of the Egyptian wilderness to Europe's majestic cloisters and beyond, the chuch has long been blessed and built up by those who single-mindedly sou…
The spiritual and material concerns of England's great religious houses, from ecstasy to accounting, fashioned medieval society more deeply than the modern observer can readily grasp. Even now, the…