Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
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This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of religious communities, and the nature of asceticism and monasticism, as well as monastic institutions, patronage, and spaces and landscapes central to ascetic traditions, including sites of veneration. The series also welcomes research on monastic and ascetic communities and traditions from around the world during the period 500-1500 CE.
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"Pandhof next to the Dom Church." Photo by Bart van Leeuwen / Flickr (cropped from original). CC BY 2.0.
Keywords: Monasticism, asceticism, sacred landscape, sacred space, mysticism, veneration sites
Geographical scope: Global
Chronological scope: 500-1500 CE
See forthcoming titles in this series.
Series editorial board
To submit a proposal or completed manuscript to be considered for publication by Medieval Institute Publications or to learn more about Monastic Life, please contact Tyler Cloherty or Emily Winkler, the acquisitions editors for the series.
The series' Editorial Board comprises:
Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University
Jacob Abell, Baylor University
Publications
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey
Edited by Susan M. B. Steuer and E. Rozanne Elder
This catalogue describes an American manuscript collection owned by the Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky (the house of Thomas Merton) the eclectic collection includes medieval manuscripts as well as materials of interest for the study of the French Revolution.
ISBN 978-1-58044-222-0 (clothbound) © 2016
Buy Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey at ISD