Religion : Monasticism

An intensely personal devotional book from Thomas Merton, the ultimate spiritual writer of our time, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and rarely-seen drawings. The only Merton gift book available. Dialogues with Silence contains a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters, poetry, books--accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings, and will attract new readers as well as Merton devotees. There is no other Merton devotional like this, and the paperback edition will be elegantly designed and packaged. more...

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The second volume of Thomas Merton's ''gusty, passionate journals'' (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence reflects Merton's struggle to balance his vocation to solitude with the budding literary career that would soon established him as one of the most important spiritual writers of our century. more...

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In an account (probably dating from 1170-1175), the archbishop takes his monks severely to task, for in his eyes they fall far short of the ideals they professed in their monastic vows. With its Prolegomena, editorial work, and indexes, this edition is a useful source for Byzantinists. It also provides a German translation of the Greek text. more...

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From the tenth century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints: --AElig--;thelthryth, its founding patroness, who died in 679, supposedly a virgin despite two marriages; her sister Seaxburh; another supposed sister Wihtburh, whose remains had been stolen by the monks of Ely from her tomb in Norfolk; Seaxburgh's daughter Eormenhild; and Eormenhild's daughter W--aelig--;rburh. This is the first edition and translation of the Lives of these saints. - ;Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the Anglo-Saxon saints. William of Malmesbury described him as 'second to none since Bede in the celebration of the English saints'. Part of his career was spent in wandering exile, and one of the places Goscelin stayed briefly was Ely, who twelfth-century house-history portrays him working late at night on verses commemorating Ely's patroness, St --AElig--;thelfryth. By the late tenth century, the cult of --AElig--;thelfryth, the seventh-century virgin-queen whose two unconsummated marriages were recounted in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, had been combined with that of her sister Seaxburh, and of another supposed sister, Wihtburh (whose relics were 'translated' from East Dereham in Norfolk to Ely in 974). To this group were added Seaxburh's daughter Eormenhild, and Eormenhild's daughter W--aelig--;rburh. A collection of the Lives of these female saints - some probably the work of Goscelin - is preserved in three twelfth-century Ely manuscripts.Taken together these texts offer a fascinating insight into Ely's view of the women venerated by the community and of its own past history. - ;The Latin is splendidly translated by Love, whose English is a treat to read. She also provides informative notes, in which reference is made to earlier Anglo-Saxon and patristic sources; biblical quotations and allusions are likewise noted...informative a more...

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This is the first of two volumes, which together form a catalogue of abbots and priors, abbesses and prioresses, of English and Welsh monastic houses between 940 and 1377. First published in 1972, it is now reissued with substantial additions and corrections by Professor C. N. L. Brooke. more...

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