Author: Edward Walter Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Benedict's Wanderings
Author: Edward Walter Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Author: Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino.)
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852441688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Fifteen centuries after it was written, the Rule of St. Benedict still provides a deep and practical spirituality that helps lay people cope with everyday problems and challenges.
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852441688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Fifteen centuries after it was written, the Rule of St. Benedict still provides a deep and practical spirituality that helps lay people cope with everyday problems and challenges.
The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely
Author: Benedict Kiely
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost."--Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review This treasure chest of a book contains the complete short stories and novellas by Benedict Kiely's, one of the great storytellers of our time and any nation. This edition contains a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to the acclaimed novella, Proxopera.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost."--Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review This treasure chest of a book contains the complete short stories and novellas by Benedict Kiely's, one of the great storytellers of our time and any nation. This edition contains a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to the acclaimed novella, Proxopera.
Wandering, Begging Monks
Author: Daniel Folger Caner
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere—including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes—to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere—including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes—to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society.
Benedict's Disciples
Author: David Hugh Farmer
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852442746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A fascinating presentation of the great monastic figures, monks and nuns, who have contributed so much to British history, written by a range of the foremost Benedictine scholars of out time. Spanning the period from the sixth century to the twentieth, these lives show the followers of the Rule of St Benedict to have been one of the most important influences in the making of Europe. Edited by the noted scholar and mediaevalist Hugh David Farmer.
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852442746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A fascinating presentation of the great monastic figures, monks and nuns, who have contributed so much to British history, written by a range of the foremost Benedictine scholars of out time. Spanning the period from the sixth century to the twentieth, these lives show the followers of the Rule of St Benedict to have been one of the most important influences in the making of Europe. Edited by the noted scholar and mediaevalist Hugh David Farmer.
The Wandering Scholars
Author: Helen Waddell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carmina Burana
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A study of mediaeval Latin lyrics and their relation to learning.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carmina Burana
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A study of mediaeval Latin lyrics and their relation to learning.
In Praise of Benedict
Author: Basil Hume
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852443798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Our own age is no less tumultuous than Benedict's own, with its breakdown to taken-for-granted institutions and ideas. Cardinal Hume brings out the ancient and ageless widsom of the Father of Western Monasticism and Patron of Europe in these talks. May this wisdom enable us to seek and find in our own difficult times.
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852443798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Our own age is no less tumultuous than Benedict's own, with its breakdown to taken-for-granted institutions and ideas. Cardinal Hume brings out the ancient and ageless widsom of the Father of Western Monasticism and Patron of Europe in these talks. May this wisdom enable us to seek and find in our own difficult times.
Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew
Author: David Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Books
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise, Modernized Edition
Author: Bernard Bangley
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1557259321
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
There is no greater authority on the saints than Alban Butler, and his enormous research has been the standard reference on the subject for the last two and a half centuries. This new adaptation of Butler's multi-volume Lives of the Saints presents a modernized text for today's reader and provides an illuminating guide to these historic, symbolic, and foundational Christian men and women. Butler's daily readings from the lives and works of the saints offer readers of all backgrounds the opportunity to engage directly with these great figures. Butler's distinctive contribution to stories about saints was to turn attention away from the superhuman, miraculous themes that are prevalent in earlier works. He gives us saints who are examples of Christian living, who provide inspiration for our own lives, in every time and circumstance. As Butler writes: "They were once what we are now, travelers on earth. They had the same weaknesses we have. We have difficulties; so had the saints." Important features of this version include mention of recently canonized saints as well as those whose path to official sainthood is still in progress. Also included in the daily readings are more obscure saints whose lives and contributions to Christianity should not be forgotten.
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1557259321
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
There is no greater authority on the saints than Alban Butler, and his enormous research has been the standard reference on the subject for the last two and a half centuries. This new adaptation of Butler's multi-volume Lives of the Saints presents a modernized text for today's reader and provides an illuminating guide to these historic, symbolic, and foundational Christian men and women. Butler's daily readings from the lives and works of the saints offer readers of all backgrounds the opportunity to engage directly with these great figures. Butler's distinctive contribution to stories about saints was to turn attention away from the superhuman, miraculous themes that are prevalent in earlier works. He gives us saints who are examples of Christian living, who provide inspiration for our own lives, in every time and circumstance. As Butler writes: "They were once what we are now, travelers on earth. They had the same weaknesses we have. We have difficulties; so had the saints." Important features of this version include mention of recently canonized saints as well as those whose path to official sainthood is still in progress. Also included in the daily readings are more obscure saints whose lives and contributions to Christianity should not be forgotten.