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The frontiers of paradise : a study of monks and monasteries / by Levi, Peter.(CARDINAL)132248;
Bibliography: page 218.
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders.;

The monastic achievement. by Zarnecki, George.(CARDINAL)124843;
Bibliography: pages 138-139.Monastic origins -- Celtic monasteries and missions -- The Benedictines in England -- The Carolingian reforms -- Cluny and the great reforms -- To the limits of Christendom -- Art for the new age -- The road to Compostela -- Cluny : the consummation -- The return to simplicity -- The severities of St Bernard -- Cistercian prosperity - the ideal fades -- Monasteries for men and women -- Contemplation and action -- The hermits of the Chartreuse -- The warrior monks -- The Teutonic Knights -- Grey friars and black friars -- Monastic art and artists -- The making of books -- "Fashioned with marvellous subtlety".
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders.;

A time to keep silence. by Fermor, Patrick Leigh.;
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders.;

Monasticism : a very short introduction / by Davis, Stephen J.,author.(CARDINAL)790259;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-136) and index.Definitions -- Differences -- Rules, social organization, and gender -- Saints and spirituality -- Spaces real and imagined -- A global phenomenon in the contemporary world.
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders.; Monastic and religious life.;

The silent life. by Merton, Thomas,1915-1968.(CARDINAL)149442;
Prologue: What is a monk? I. The monastic peace: 1. Puritas cordis [purity of heart -- 2. In veritate [in truth] -- 3. In laboribus multis [in many labors] -- 4. In tabernaculo altissimi [in the highest tabernacle] -- II. The cenobitic life: 1. St. Benedict -- 2. The Benedictines / Solesmes / La Pierre qui vire -- The Cistercians -- III. The hermit life: 1. The Carthusians -- 2. The Camaldolese."A meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life from the inside ... who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old."--Prologue.
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders.; Monastic and religious life.;

Catholic religious orders : listing conventional and full names in English, foreign language, and Latin, also abbreviations, date and country of origin and founders by Kapsner, Oliver Leonard,1902-1991.(CARDINAL)160072;
Bibliography: pages xxvii-xxxvii.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Monasticism and religious orders;

The Seven storey mountain. by Merton, Thomas,1915-1968.(CARDINAL)149442;
Subjects: Conversion.; Monasticism and religious orders.;

Klosterleben im deutschen Mittelalter : nach zeitgenössischen Aufzeichnungen / by Bühler, Johannes,1884-1967,compiler.(CARDINAL)201149;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-523).
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders;

Living springs: New religious movements in Western Europe. by Wyon, Olive,1881-1966.(CARDINAL)339579;
Includes bibliography.The meaning of Monasticism -- Community life in the British Isles -- New communities within continental Protestantism -- New Roman Catholic movements -- New patterns of Christian living.
Subjects: Protestant monasticism and religious orders.; Monasticism and religious orders;

I leap over the wall : contrasts and impressions after twenty-eight years in a convent. by Baldwin, Monica.(CARDINAL)210102;
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women.;

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