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Herbert B. Workman.
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal, from the Earliest Times down to the Coming of the Friars: A Second Chapter in the History of Christian Renunciation.
London: Epworth Press/J. Alfred Sharp, 1927 reprint (previously issued 1913).
[No ISBN].
Hardback, stitch bound.
147x219x36mm.
xxi,368pp.
English.
Ex-lib. New College Oxford, fair condition: some ink marking, mainly to chapters 1, 3, 4 & 7, but a few pages elsewhere - usually in the form of sidelines in the margins or words & phrases underlined; binding starting to split here and there, though still sound, no pages detached; no dustjacket.This item £10.00
[Kessinger paperback in print at $33.95]
515g.Contents: Historic survey of the ideas of monasticism; History to the coming of Benedict; St Benedict & his Order; Ideals in the Celtic Church; Development from St Benedict to St Francis; Coming of the friars; The message of monasticism; Appendix - Sources of our knowledge of early monasticism.
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