This festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Burton celebrates her remarkable contribution to monastic scholarship, in particular her work on monasticism in the North of England and Wales, nuns and their experience, and monastic record-keeping and history writing.
Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.
Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato mak…
"A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), founded in…
Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life.
The historian's task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our sources. A historian must not only analyze the content and context of ancient sources, but also the structures of power, authority, and political contingency that account for their transmission, prese…
Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action …
<P style=""MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt"" class=ecxMsoNormal>An offbeat and entertaining account of a journey through Spain - staying only in ancient monasteries.
For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church througho…
A new survey of major Templar landholdings offers fresh insights into key questions about their medieval history.
"Among the many archaeological books on monasticism, none has considered the differences between the religious life of men and women. Nunneries have often been dismissed as poor or failed monasteries. Gender and Material Culture takes a fresh look at the lives of religious women…
""A first-rate piece of work, very useful both for undergraduate and graduate students. Also of real interest for non-scholars, non-students, and people interested in Jesuits in general. The introductions are especially valuable in situating the readings in context. The Illustra…
This Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th-13th Centuries) offers the first major collection of studies dedicated to the medieval abbey of Le Bec, one of the most important, and perhaps the single most influential, monastery in the Anglo-Norman world.…
