This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts th
This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church,
In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious refo
From the deserts of Egypt to the emergence of the great monastic orders, the story of late antique and medieval monasticism in the West used to be straightforwa
A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries offers an introduction to the rules and customaries of the main religious orders in medieval Europe: Benedictine,