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Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition
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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction - Santha Bhattacharji 1. Re-thinking the History of Monasticism East and West: A Modest tour d’horizon - Columba Stewart, O.S.B. 2. Not by Bread Alone: St Brendan meets Paul, the Irish Spiritual Hermit - Eamonn O’Carragain 3. Theology and the Paschal Controversy: Bede’s Case Against the British Church - Rowan Williams 4. Bede’s view of the place of the Eucharist in Anglo-Saxon Life: the evidence of the Histroia ecclesiasticus gentis Anglorum - Thomas O’Loughlin 5. Women, Prayer and Preaching in the Early English Church - Sarah Foot 6. What Was Supposed to be Going on in the Minds of Monks When they Prayed the Psalter in Carolingian times? - Henry Mayr-Harting 7. ‘The brother who may wish to pray by himself’: Sense of Self in Carolingian Prayers of Private Devotion - Renie Choy 8. St Boniface Monk and Missioner - Henry Wansbrough O.S.B. 9. Turning the World Upside-Down: St Peter Damian’s Theology of the Spiritual Life - Gordon Mursell 10. John of Fécamp and Anselm of Bec: A New Language of Prayer - Brian McGuire 11. ‘Minds Wandering’ and ‘Monastic stability’ in the Early Monastic Letters of Anselm of Bec - G.R. Evans 12. Between Dialectic and the Sacred Scripture: Anselm of Canterbury and the Bible - Giles Gasper 13. Miracles and the Crusading Mind: Monastic Meditations on Jerusalem’s Conquest - Jay Rubenstein 14. Reading Saints’ Lives in the Light of John of Forde’s Life of Wulfric of Haselbury - Pauline Matarasso 15. The Eye of Reason – The Eye of Love: ‘Divine Learning and Affective Prayer’ in the thought of William of St Thierry - E Rozanne Elder 16. Concerning Academic Translation and the Latin of Conrad of Eberbach - Paul Savage 17. ‘Desire for the Eternal Country’: the Laity and the Wider World of Monastic Prayer in Medieval England - Brian Golding 18. Universities: Friend or Foe? - Alexander Murray 19. Late Medieval Mysticism: visionary writing as a mode of thought - Santha Bhattacharji 20. John Wesley and William Law: the founding of two contrasting religious communities in the Eighteenth Century - Ralph Waller 21. The Beloved: the Messianic Figure in the Song of Songs - Sister Edmée S.L.G. 22. Sr Benedicta Ward in a few words: Nun, Scholar, Teacher - Dominic Mattos Select Bibliography of Works by Sr Benedicta Ward S.L.G. M.A. D. Phil Indexes

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This new collection provides an in-depth picture of the development of monastic thought and prayer from the early English Church to the 17th Century.

About the Author

Santha Bhattacharji is Senior Tutor at St Benet's Hall, and a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK. Rowan Williams (Baron Williams of Oystermouth) is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. He was formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, UK, and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 - 2012. Dominic Mattos is a publisher and writer, and studied Theology at the University of Oxford, UK.

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I cannot here do justice to all the essays in this book. However, all in all, this is a very fitting tribute to a gracious lady who by her work as a medievalist and a translator has done so much to further research in the early monastic tradition ... These 21 essays, each by experts in their own fields, offer the reader a rich feast of writings on various aspects of monastic learning in fields such as history, prayer, theology, spirituality, hagiography, and liturgy, and the volume deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in these or in any aspect of early English monastic life.
*Journal of Theological Studies*

The range of subjects covered by these essays is itself a remarkable testimony to [Sister Benedicta's] breadth of interests.
*Fairacres Chronicle*

All the essays are well researched and prepared in a manner to further the study of monastic prayer and thought. … illuminating the reader and providing insight into each historical personage and period.
*Horizons*

[This] publication ... makes a profound contribution to medieval studies and has already sold well.
*The Way*

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