The Rule of Saint Benedict

Adalbert de Vogue

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 54
• After living the Rule and studying it for many years, the author introduces it to those who are encountering it for the first time. The relationship o... Lees meer

Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations

Guigo

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 48
• 'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( '1180) articulates the monastic contemp... Lees meer

Unity of Spirit

Sommerfeldt John

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 268
• William of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1080-1148) became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Thierry in about 1119, holding that office for about sixteen y... Lees meer

Forty Gospel Homilies

Gregory

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 123
• It is often forgotten, in the centuries after scholastic systems and Reformation polemic came to dominate the study of theology; just how intimate was... Lees meer

The Spiritually Beneficial Tales of Paul, Bishop of Monembasia

Paul Bishop of Monembasia

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 159
• The 'spiritualy beneficial tales' of Byzantine Christianity grew out of the desert Apophthegmata. Written at a time, and at a social level, not remark... Lees meer

Cyril of Scythopolis

Cyril of Scythopolis

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 114
• The narrow stretch of desert between the Jordan Valley and the hill country of Judea drew great biblical prophets-Elijah and John the Baptist-and unfo... Lees meer

The Difficult Saint

Brian P McGuire

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 126
• Controversial in his own day, Bernard still today excites both admiration and dislike. McGuire looks at various facets of Bernard's personality, and a... Lees meer

The Theological and Practical Treatises and the Three Theological Discourses

Symeon the New Theologian

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 41
• Symeon the New Theologian transformed the Evagrian tradition of hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude remote from the affairs of men, and... Lees meer

The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies
• 2022 Catholic Media Association second place award in theology: history of theology, church fathers and mothers The Sayings and Stories of the Desert ... Lees meer

Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius

Paphnutius

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 140
• The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century. Not because the world was a bad place, but because t... Lees meer

A Benedictine Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 275
• A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530 , has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and d... Lees meer

Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 222
• The period between 1025 and 1150 was a time of creativity and new beginnings in monastic life. Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine establi... Lees meer

Handmaid of the Lord

Armand-Jean de Rancé

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies
• In this book, David N. Bell explores what Cistercian writers and preachers have said about Mary from the time of the founding fathers of the Order to ... Lees meer

Many Mansions

David N Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 146
• In the theological skies of both the Greek and the Latin Church between the seventh and the fourteenth centuries usually know as the Middle Ages, a nu... Lees meer

The Call of Wild Geese

Matthew Kelty

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 136
• The brief, unforgettable homilies in this second collection of monastic homilies speak of the human realities and are no less applicable to persons in... Lees meer

A Cloud of Witnesses

David N Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 218
• First published in 1989, A Cloud of Witnesses has been completely rewritten to incorporate a multitude of minor amendments and a considerable amount o... Lees meer

The Life of Jesus Christ

Ludolph of Saxony

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 283
• 2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in backlist beauty The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony, fourteenth-century Carthusian, is the most... Lees meer

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

Benedict of Aniane

Clemens Radl

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 220
• Given the task of reviving monasticism and imposing uniformity throughout the Carolingian Empire, Witiza, a Visigothic lord became monk with the name ... Lees meer

Drinking from the Hidden Fountain

Tomas Spidlik

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 148
• Sparkling in the ancient texts of the Fathers of the Church--the bishops, monks, and theologians who wrote during the first, formative six Christian c... Lees meer

The Letters of Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Studies
• A monk and a scholar generally recognized as the keenest philosophical and theological mind of his time, Anselm, abbot of Bec, found himself forcibly ... 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

Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict

Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 212
• A ninth-century monk of Saint Mihiel near Verdun, Smaragdus composed his Commentary after the 816 Council of Aachen imposed the Rule of Saint Benedict... Lees meer

Lectio Divina

Duncan Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Studies | nr. 238
• During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina 'the prayerful scrutiny of passages of... Lees meer