High King of Heaven

Benedicta Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 181
• In the seventh and eighth centuries, missionaries from Rome and Ireland brought Christianity to England. The English piety which developed, resulted f... Lees meer

The Venerable Bede

Benedicta Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 169
• From his remote Northumbrian monastery, Bede (673-735) exerted an enormous and enduring influence on the study of Scripture, history, mathematics, and... Lees meer

High King of Heaven

Benedicta Ward

• Paperback | Engels
• In the 7th and 8th centuries missionaries from Rome introduced Christianity to England. Ward discusses the literary and non-literary sources on the li... Lees meer

The Desert Fathers

• E-book | Engels
• The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and... Lees meer

In the Company of Christ

Benedicta Ward

• Paperback | Engels
• With In the Company Christ , Sister Benedicta Ward, a church historian, guides us through the history of Christian procession. Through the practice of... Lees meer

The Desert Fathers

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized and... Lees meer

Signs and Wonders

Benedicta Ward

• Hardcover | Engels | Variorum Collected Studies | nr. 361
• This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages. The first group of ar... Lees meer

The Great Beginning of Citeaux

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 72
• In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. Yet it had lo... Lees meer

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 59
• `Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century writ... Lees meer

Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm with the Proslogion

Anselm of Aosta

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Mostly written between 1070 and 1080, before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, the prayers and meditations of Anselm of Aosta created a tradition of... Lees meer

Harlots of the Desert

Benedicta Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 106
• Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude, far from the eyes of men, became the most stirring image of penance conceivable. St... Lees meer