monasticism: Bibliography

See L. Bouyer, The Meaning of the Monastic Life (1955); T. Merton, The Silent Life (1957); D. Knowles, The Monastic Order in England (2d ed. 1963) and Christian Monasticism (1969); C. H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism (1984); S. Evangelisti, Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450–1700 (2008).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Modern Communities
• History
• Monasticism in the Western Church
• Monasticism in the Eastern Church
• Bibliography

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