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The Rule of Saint Augustine: Masculine and Feminine Versions. Raymond Canning, trans. (pb) £6.00

The Rule of Saint Benedict, Latin and English. Luke Dysinger, trans. (pb) £12.50

Giles Constable and Bernard S. Smith, eds.
Libellus de diversis ordinibus et professionibus qui sunt in aecclesia; revised edition. (hb) £27.00

Hugh Feiss, OSB, ed. & trans.
Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life. (hb) £9.50  

Herman of Tournai
The Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai. (pb) £6.50

Jocelin of Brakelond
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond concerning the acts of Samson, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Edmund. H. E. Butler, ed. (hb, Nelson's Medieval Classics) £9.00
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.  Diana Greenway & Jane Sayers, trans. (pb, World's Classics) £3.50

B. R. Kemp, ed. 
Reading Abbey Cartularies: British Library Manuscripts Egerton 3031, Harley 1708 and Cotton Vespasian E xxv. (hb, 2-vol. set) £15.00

"Thomas of Eccleston"
Fratris Thomae vulgo dicti de Eccleston Tractatus de Advento Fratrum Minorum in Angliam; ed. A. G. Little. (hb) £35.00 

Leslie Watkiss and Marjorie Chibnall, eds. 
The Waltham Chronicle: An account of the discovery of our holy cross at Montacute and its conveyance to Waltham. (hb) £50.00



Reference

Dom Augustin Devaux
Catalogue des manuscrits des dépôts publics français concernant l'ordre des Chartreux: Tome 1, Abbeville-Lyon; Tome 2, Marseille-Vienne. (pb) 2 vols for £30.00

H. Ernest Roberts
Notes on the Medieval Monasteries and Minsters of England and Wales. (hb) £12.50 



Secondary works

[No author].
The Benedictines in Britain. (pb) £4.50

Mick Aston
Monasteries in the Landscape. (hb) £14.50

Michael Barrett, OSB
The Scottish Monasteries of Old: A brief account of the houses which existed in Scotland, before the protestant Reformation, for monks following the Rule of St Benedict. (hb) £25.00

Geoffrey Baskerville
English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries. (hb) £6.50

Paola Bernardi 
Carthusian Monastery of Pavia. (hb) £6.50 

Derry Brabbs
Abbeys and Monasteries. (hb) £10.00 

Léon Côte
Un moin de l'an mille: Saint Odilon, Abbé de Cluny de 994 à 1049. (hb) £19.50

Seiriol Evans 
The Medieval Estate of the Cathedral Priory of Ely: A Preliminary Survey. (pb) £7.00 

S. F. Hockey
Quarr Abbey and its Lands 1132-1631. (hb) £22.00
Quarr Abbey and its Lands 1132-1631. (hb; ex-lib.) £12.00 

P. J. Huggins
Waltham Abbey: Monastic Grange and Outer Close Excavations, 1970-1972. (pb) £9.50

David Jones
Your Book of Abbeys. (hb) £3.50

John Koumoulides and Christopher Walter; foreword by Steven Runciman. 
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments at Aghia in Thessaly, Greece: The Art and Architecture of the Monastery of Saint Panteleimon. (pb) £20.00

C. H. Lawrence
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. (pb) £3.50 

Dom Jean Leclercq
Analecta Monastica, deuxième sèrie. (pb) £30.00 

Peter Levi  
The Frontiers of Paradise: A Study of Monks and Monasteries. (pb) £8.00 

Claude Lougnot
Cluny: Pouvoirs de l'an mille. (hb) £15.00 

Tony McAleavy
Life in a Medieval Abbey. (pb) £2.50

Terence P. McLaughlin
Le tres ancien droit monastique de l'occident: Etude sur le développement général du monachisme et ses rapports avec l'Eglise séulière et le monde laïque de saint Benoît de Nursie à saint Benoît d'Aniane. (pb) £35.00  

Janet D. Martin
The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey. (hb) £4.50 

E. K. Milliken
English Monasticism Yesterday and Today. (hb) £10.00

Geoffrey Moorhouse
Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision. (hb) £5.00

Eileen Power
Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535. (hb) £60.00 

Derrick Pratt
The Dissolution of Valle Crucis Abbey, 2nd edn.  (pb) £4.00

William J. Short
The Franciscans. (hb) £35.00  

A. H. Thompson
English Monasteries. (hb) £7.00

F. Vandenbroucke, OSB. 
Pour l'histoire de la théologie morale: La morale monastique du XIe au XVIe siècle. (pb) £9.50

Dom Hubert van Zeller
The Benedictine Idea. (hb) £12.00

Herbert B. Workman
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal, from the Earliest Times down to the Coming of the Friars. (hb) £10.00



Books & journals containing related material

Scottish Archaeological Forum, 3 March 1973. Vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1974). £9.50

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Sixth Series, 1 (1991). (hb) £7.50


James P. Carley
Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous. (hb) £10.00 

Leon Cristiani
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153). (hb) £8.50

Máire and Liam de Paor
Early Christian Ireland. (hb) £7.50

Paul Diemer
Aelred of Rievaulx. (pb) £2.50

Carol Dover, ed. 
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. (hb) £30.00

Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, eds. 
Women in Scotland, c. 1100-c. 1750. (pb) £6.00

Basil Hume OSB
In Praise of Benedict AD 480-1980. (pb) £3.50 

Dom David Knowles
The Historian and Character, and Other Essays. (hb) £16.50 

Lester K. Little
Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France. (pb) £12.50

G. A. Loud
Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History. (hb) £45.00

Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller, eds. 
The Cultural Turn in Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. (pb) £11.00

Marc Anthony Meyer, ed. 
The Culture of Christendom: Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L. T. Bethel. (hb) £14.50

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. 
Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. (hb) £35.00

A. W. Oxford
Guide to Fountains Abbey. (pb) £4.00 

David M. Robinson and Colin Platt
Strata Florida Abbey/Talley Abbey. (pb) £4.00 

A. L. Rowse, ed. 
The West in English History. (hb) £10.00 

Nigel Saul
(ed.) England in Europe 1066-1453. (hb) £7.00

Joanna Story
Lindisfarne Priory. (pb) £2.50

A. Hamilton Thompson
Bede, His Life, Times, and Writings. (hb) £20.00
Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland. (pb) £2.00 

Lesley Twomey, ed. 
Faith and Fanaticism: Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain. (hb) £8.50 

Schafer Williams, ed. 
The Gregorian Epoch: Reformation, Revolution, Reaction? (pb) £7.00


 
 
 


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