Religion and Monasticism

    The Christian Tradition in General
  • Hamilton, Bernard. Religion in the Medieval West. London: Arnold, 1986. [On monasticism, see Chapters 3, 5.]
  • Southern, R.W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. [See for monasticism esp. Chapter 6, "The Religious Orders."]
    Monasticisim
  • Lawrence, Clifford Hughes. Medieval Monasticism: forms of religious life in western Europe in the Middle Ages. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1989.
  • Knowles, Dom David. The Monastic Order in England: a history of its development from the times of St Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council 940-1216. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1963.
  • Burton, Janet. Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
  • D‚carreaux, Jean. Monks and Civilization from the Barbarian Invasions to the Reign of Charle magne. Trans. Charlotte Haldane. London: Allen & Unwin, 1964.
  • Leclercq, Jean, O.S.B. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: a study of monastic culture. Trans. Catharine Misrahi.New York: Fordham UP, 1961.
  • Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. The Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1961.
  • McCann, Justin. Saint Benedict: the Story of the Man and his Work. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958.
  • Constable, Giles. Medieval Monasticism: a select bibliography. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1976.
    Monastic Rules and the Rule Of St. Benedict
  • McCann, Justin, O.S.B. The Rule of St. Benedict, in Latin and English. London: , 1952.
  • Fry, Timothy, ed. RB 1980: the rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with notes. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Pres, 1980.
  • The Rule of St Benedict: A guide to Christian Living. The Full Text of the Rule in Latin and English with Commentary by George Hozherr, Abbot of Einsiedeln. (2nd ed. Zürich: Bensiger, 1982.) Transl. Monks of Glenstal Abbey. Dublin: Four Courts P, 1994. BX3004 .A2 1944c
  • Meyvaert, Paul. "Towards a History of the Textual Transmission of the Regula S. Benedicti." Scriptorium 17 (1963): 83-110.
  • Knowles, David. "The Regula Magistri and the Rule of St Benedict." Great Historical Enterprises. London: Nelson, 1963.
  • Vogüé, Adalbert de and J. Neuville, eds. La Règle de Saint Benoit. 6 vols. Source Chrétiennes 181-6. Paris: le Cerf, 1971-2.
  • Monastic Britain: A map of British monasticism from the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution fo 1539. North and South Sheets. 2nd ed. Southampton, England: Ordnance Survey, 1954.

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