Tag: Monastic

Free Download Annalena Müller, "Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500"
English | ISBN: 1032290706 | 2024 | 210 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book aims to rewrite the narrative of women and power in medieval society. Based on a rich corpus of sources – systematically collected for the first time – it reveals female monasteries as central and economically able agents in feudal society.

Free Download English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry by Cecil A. Hewett
English | September 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1803994770 | 320 pages | EPUB | 59 Mb
Well over a hundred great churches were build in the cathedral tradition in the middle ages. They are our most important group of historical monuments and embody the finest craftwork of medieval architecture. Despite a great mass of specialist literature and research on other aspects, it was not until Cecil Hewett’s work over the past three decades that any serious attention was paid to their functional carpentry or, indeed, to their decorative timberwork.

Free Download Erika Lauren Lindgren, "Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany "
English | ISBN: 0231142382 | 2009 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Through the lens of sensorial experience, Erika Lauren Lindgren explores the spirituality of monastic women as reflected in their writings, liturgical texts, artwork, architecture, and archival documents. Specifically, she focuses on the Dominican nuns and lay-sisters of southern Germany in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, particularly the way in which these women controlled and interpreted their surroundings and incorporated them into their spiritual and devotional practices.

Free Download How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner
English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0691208085 | 288 pages | MOBI | 0.73 Mb
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one

Free Download Christopher Brooke, "Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1587680181 | PDF | pages: 380 | 14.0 mb
A meticulously researched look at the birth and flowering of monastic life and its impact on seekers today. †

Free Download Christopher Brooke, "Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1587680181 | PDF | pages: 380 | 14.0 mb
A meticulously researched look at the birth and flowering of monastic life and its impact on seekers today. †

Free Download Julie Hotchin, "Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities "
English | ISBN: 1837650497 | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
New approaches to understanding religious women’s involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women’s experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.

Free Download Kenneth C. Carveley, "The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements "
English | ISBN: 1032111445 | 2022 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 18 MB
This book examines the influence of the monastic tradition beyond the Reformation. Where the built monastic environment had been dissolved, desire for the spiritual benefits of monastic living still echoed within theological and spiritual writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a virtual exegetical template. The volume considers how the writings of monastic authors were appropriated in post-Reformation movements by those seeking a more fervent spiritual life, and how the concept of an internal cloister of monastic/ascetic spirituality influenced several Anglican writers during the Restoration. There is a careful examination of the monastic influence upon the Wesleys and the foundation and rise of Methodism. Drawing on a range of primary sources, the book will be of particular interest to scholars of monastic and Methodist history, and to those engaged in researching ecclesiology and in ecumenical dialogues.

Free Download John Cassian, "How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction "
English | ISBN: 0691208085 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 667 KB + 1160 KB
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one

Free Download How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQD8KVTP | 2024 | 2 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 62 MB
Author: John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Distraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategies to improve their attention and engagement. How to Focus is an inviting collection of their strikingly relatable insights and advice-frank, funny, sympathetic, and psychologically sophisticated. This wisdom is drawn from John Cassian’s Collationes, one of the most influential manuals for monks from late antiquity.