Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of fourmonks of the Monastery ...

Cristiana Piccardo was the long-time abbess of an unusual Cisterciancommunity in Italy. 'We have ...

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in fo...

Descriptions of Pachomian monastic communities from a variety of ancient sources, including the L...

Aelred entered the newly founded abbey of Rievaulx in 1133, after serving at the Scottish royal c...

Preached to monks and edited for publication by a pastor, these sermons are applicable generally ...

Founded 900 years ago by St. Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious or...

'One of the more comprehensive and balanced books on Merton to appear lately...'-The Louisville C...

In about 679, Bede, a boy of seven, was presented by his family as an oblate to the monastery of ...

Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of G...

This book surveys the history and themes of Orthodox spirituality.

How can we attune ourselves to God's grace?It always takes a lifetime to do - and this is because...

To sing the praises of Mary, Bernard studies and contemplates her there where God has so perfectl...

Born in 1090, Bernard of Clairvaux died sixty-three years later, and was canonized in 1174.His fr...

Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of christian monasticism i...

If joy in the resurrection is the distinguishing mark of christian faith, why have christian sain...

The lives, rules, and other writings of Saint Pachomius and his disciples.

Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated thei...

The monk and the knight-the two quintessentially medieval European heroes-were combined in the Kn...

Three times longer than the Rule of Saint Benedict and in parts identical to it, the Regula Magis...

The Irish temperament--individualistic, poetic, and deeply loyal to family--produced great and le...

Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting--and for ...

'Prayer is a journey, sometimes a combat.There are trials, purifications, passages.It is at once ...

Christians have been drawn to monastic life nearly as long as Christianity has existed.Dedicating...

Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen survivi...

Symeon the New Theologian transformed the Evagrian tradition of hesychia, with its insistence on ...

The Egypt of Mena, bishop of Nikiou, was a country under relatively tolerant Muslim administratio...

The abbot, the community, and obedience in the Rule of Saint Benedict as compared to its source, ...

Give me a word, Father. From the time of Saint Antony-at least-younger monks would ask older, exp...

In 1090 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of the Cistercian order, was born.One of the great figur...

Beatrice of Nazareth and the amazing group of nuns and beguines who lived and wrote, or were writ...

'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Striving to...

In the half century since its first publication in English, this small book has become a classic ...

The art of preaching had become a highly formal science by the late twelfth century.Taught at uni...

Gertrud the Great of Helfta

Basil the Great (330-379) is one of the most important figures in Christian history and a theolog...

Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him.H...

Founded in 910 to return to the authentic monasticism of Saint Benedict, the abbey of Cluny led a...

Bl. Rafael Arnáiz Barón's life was extraordinary by any standards. Set amid the tumult of the Spa...

Instrumental in the conversion of many, including Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the mode...