The Bible is the monk's book.The thought and teaching of St Bernard of Clairvaux was so saturat...

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

In about 679, Bede, a boy of seven, was presented by his family as an oblate to the monastery of ...

Aelred of Rievaulx, like his Cistercian brothers, believed that the human person is created in th...

In the half century since its first publication in English, this small book has become a classic ...

For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants t...

'Perhaps no book was more central to medieval spirituality and mysticism,' writes Bernard McGinn,...

Beatrice of Nazareth and the amazing group of nuns and beguines who lived and wrote, or were writ...

'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Striving to...

Guerric of Igny (d. 1157) ranks with Bernard of Clairvaux, Aelred of Rievaulx, and William of Sai...

The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped byfigures ranging from ...

Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohensta...