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monasticism and religious orders early church ca. 30-600

Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

By Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Penthos

By Irénée Hausherr

John Cassian

By Owen Chadwick

The ecclesiastical hierarchy

By Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

The Word in the Desert

By Douglas Burton-Christie

Monastic Education in Late Antiquity

By Samuel Rubenson

Histories of the monks of upper Egypt

By Tim Vivian

Women and the religious life in premodern Europe

By Patricia Ranft

Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity

By Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Words to live by

By Tim Vivian,Apostolos N. Athanassakis,Magad S. A. Mikhail,Birger A. Pearson,Maged S. A. Mikhail

Augustine in Iconography

By Frederi Van Fleteren

Pre-Benedictine Monasticism

By Thomas Merton

Vita Petri Iberi

By John Rufus Bishop of Maiuma

Desert Christians

By William Harmless

Ascetics and ambassadors of Christ

By Binns, John

Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West

By Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin

The monastic origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices

By Hugo Lundhaug

Das frühchristliche Mönchtum und der Buddhismus

By Franz Winter

Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

By Caroline T. Schroeder

John Cassian, The institutes

By John Cassian

Abbots and abbesses as a human resource in the ninth- to twelfth-century West

By Steven Vanderputten

The letters of St. Antony

By Samuel Rubenson

Sabas, leader of Palestinian monasticism

By J. Patrich

Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

By Alexander O'Hara