Communities & monasticism

Celtic Daily Prayer: Book One: The Journey Begins (Northumbria Community): Book 1 [9780008123024]

A revised edition of this classic compendium of readings and prayers for every day of the year, with Celtic themes and inspiration. The first in a tw…

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Celtic Daily Prayer: Book Two: Farther Up and Farther in (Northumbria Community): Book 2 [9780008100193]

A brand new two-year collection of daily readings and prayers, with Celtic themes and inspiration. Building on the foundations set down in the first …

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The Way of St Benedict [9781472973078]

With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way of St Benedict Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to be …

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The Wisdom of St Benedict: Monastic Spirituality and the Life of the Church [9781786223098]

Luigi Gioia is one of the most insightful commentators on monastic and priestly life today. In The Wisdom of St Benedict he shines the light of monast…

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The Joy of God: Collected Writings [9781472971326]

Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was ed…

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Accidental Friends: Stories from my life in community [9780232533873]

As L'Arche Daybreak and L'Arche Canada approach their 50th anniversary, this beautifully-written memoir tells the inside story of daily life with peop…

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A Time to Keep Silence [9780719555275]

From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leig…

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A Universal Heart: The Life and Vision of Brother Roger of Taize

This updated edition ÔÇô with a new colour-plate section ÔÇô is published to celebrate the centenary of Brother RogerÔÇÖs birth on 12 May 1915.In Augu…

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The Medieval Monastery [9780747811466]

Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality, power…

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World Without End [9781472942487]

In these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO - bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centeri…

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Athos: The Holy Mountain [9781784537999]

Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, this mounta…

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Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America [9780814795569]

Winner, Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Cath…

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Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen: Pt.2: French Estates [9780197261378]

This is a critical edition of the 12th-century surveys (custumals) of the French estates of the Norman Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen. Together with its …

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Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam [9781474479684]

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Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 [9780812218534]

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to fo…

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Cloister, Abbot and Precinct in Medieval Monasteries [9780752419367]

Cloister, Abbot and Precinct in Medieval Monasteries

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Communities of the Last Days: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament [9780851114675]

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Contemplating Edith Stein [9780268021894]

Controversy surrounding the beatification and canonization of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, has ec…

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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture [9780801441103]

Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a rang…

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Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050 [9781501715945]

In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested wi…

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