Search results for “[Subject: monasticism]”

• Author(s): Steven Olderr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Monasticism The roots of monasticism may go back as far as 1700 BCE, to ascetic practices in ancient India. Since that time, the...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThe Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to ...

• Author(s): Peter R. Brown • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThe "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "r...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 an...

• Author(s): Bruce L. Venarde • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and pu...

• Author(s): Kathleen Norris • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: Monasticism A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual co...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 an...

• Author(s): Anne Jacobson Schutte • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MonasticismAn unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryThe history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAround the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation...

• Author(s): Cheryl L. Reed • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Monasticism Surprising. Provocative. Honest. For Unveiled, reporter Cheryl Reed interviewed more than 300 nuns of diverse b...

• Author(s): Steven Vanderputten • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryThe history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform...

• Author(s): Brian Patrick McGuire • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - History"I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to p...

• Author(s): Stephen Batalden • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxOriginating in the symposium on The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet...

• Author(s): Roberta Gilchrist • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Institutions & OrganizationsGender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey F. Hamburger • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: SpiritualityThe Visual and the Visionary puts the study of female spirituality on a new footing and provides a nuanced account of t...