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• Christopher Brooke, The Age of the Cloister (Sutton, 2003)
  
• Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism (Blackwell, 2003)
  
• Joan Evans, Monastic Life at Cluny, 910-1157 (Oxford, 1931)
  
• Hugh Feiss, OSB, ed. and trans., Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999)
  
• Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper, Disciples of the Desert (Johns Hopkins, 2005)
  
• William Johnston, ed., The Encyclopedia of Monasticism (Routledge, 2000)
  
• Peter King, Western Monasticism (Cistercian Publications, 1999)
  
• David Knowles, Christian Monasticism (McGraw-Hill, 1969)
  
• David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England (Cambridge, 1948)
  
• C. H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism (Longman, 1984)
  

• Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict (Paraclete Press, 2006)
  
• Gregory the Great, The Life of St. Benedict, Book II of Dialogues, trans. by John Zimmerman, OSB (Catholic University of America Press, 1959)
  
• Rule of St. Benedict in English, trans. by Timothy Fry (Liturgical Press, 1982)
  
• Anthony Marett-Crosby, ed., The Benedictine Handbook (Liturgical Press, 2003)
  
• David Knowles, The Benedictines (Macmillan, 1930)
  

• St. Gregory the Great: Pastoral Care, trans. by Henry Davis, S.J. (Newman Press, 1978)
  
• R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His World (Cambridge, 2003)
  

• Eleanor Duckett, The Wandering Saints (Catholic Book Club, 1959)
  
• Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (Henry Holt & Co., 1997)
  
• The Letters of Saint Boniface, trans. by Ephraim Emerton (Columbia, 2000)
  

• Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins (Oxford, 1999)
  
• Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages (HarperCollins, 1963, 1993)
  
• Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?: How It Shaped the Modern World (InterVarsity, 2005)
  
• Joseph H. Lynch, The Medieval Church: A Brief History (Longman, 1992)
  
• McGinn, Bernard, ed., Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (Herder & Herder, 1987)
  
• Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head, eds., Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Pennsylvania State, 1995)
  
• Robert Royal, The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West (Encounter Books, 2006)
  

• Issue 64: St. Antony and the Desert Fathers
  
• Issue 63: How the Vikings Took Up the Faith
  
• Issue 60: How the Irish Were Saved
  
• Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages
  
• Issue 42: Francis of Assisi
  
• Issue 30: Women in the Medieval Church
  
• Issue 24: Bernard of Clairvaux (out of print but available with subscription to www.ctlibrary.com
  

• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html), edited by Paul Halsall, is an excellent compilation of medieval texts.
  
• The Order of St. Benedict website (www.osb.org) includes translations of Benedict's Rule, Gregory's Life of Benedict, and information about various aspects of monasticism. It also has a geographic directory of Benedictine monasteries and retreat houses. The best way to learn about the Benedictine tradition is to visit one of these places and experience it first hand.
  

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