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Volume I

General introduction / Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin

Part I.tThe origins of Christian monasticism to the eighth century: The monastic laboratory : perspectives of research in late antique and early medieval monasticism / Albrecht Diem and Claudia Rapp

Re-reading monastic traditions : monks and nuns, East and West, from the origins to c. 750 / Anne-Marie Helvetius (with the collaboration of Michel Kaplan, Anne Boud'Hors, Muriel Debie, and Benedicte Lesieur)

The archaeology of the earliest monasteries / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom and Hendrik Dey

Egyptian nuns in late antiquity as exemplars / Mariachiara Giorda

Psalmody and prayer in early monasticism / Peter Jeffery

Heterodoxy and monasticism around the Mediterranean Sea / David Brakke

The invention of western monastic literature : texts and communities / Roberto Alciati

Monastic rules (4th-9th c.) / Albrecht Diem and Philip Rousseau

Social plurality and monastic diversity in late antique Hispania (6th-8th c.) / Pablo C. Diaz

Female house ascetics from the fourth to the twelfth century / Eliana Magnani

The archaeology of the earliest monasteries in Italy and France (5th-8th c.) / Sebastien Bully and Eleonora Destefanis

Nuns and monks at work : equality or distinction between the sexes? a study of Frankish monasteries from the sixth to the tenth century / Isabelle Real

Ascetic prayer for the dead in the early medieval West / Gordon Blennemann

Monastic identity in early medieval Ireland / Lisa Bitel

Constructing monastic space in the early and central medieval West (5th-12th c.) / Michel Lauwers

The economy of Byzantine monasteries / Michel Kaplan

Part IV. Forms of monasticism in the late Middle Ages: Late medieval monasticism : historiography and prospects / Elisabeth Lusset and Bert Roest

Sources of late medieval monasticism / Cecile Caby

Monastic liturgy, 1100-1500 : continuity and performance / Susan Boynton

Books and libraries within monasteries / Eva Schlotheuber and John T. McQuillen

Art in monastic churches of Western Europe from the twelfth to the fourteenth century / Stefanie Seeberg and Alexandra Gajewski

Lay brothers and sisters in the high and late Middle Ages / Megan Cassidy-Welch

Feminine religious life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Cristina Andenna

Striving for religious perfection in the lay world of northern Europe / Alison More and Anneke Mulder-Bakker

Monks and the universities, c. 1200-1500 / James Clark

Bishops, canon law, and the religious, c.1140-1350 / Tristan Sharp

Daily life in late medieval monasteries / Christian Knudsen

Monastic preaching, c. 1350-1545 / James Clark and Kate E. Bush

Research on monasticism in the German tradition / Sigrid Hirbodian

Satirical depictions of monastic life / Sita Steckel

A crisis of late medieval monasticism? / Bert Roest.

Volume II. Part III. The long twelfth century: Historiographical approaches to monasticism in long twelfth century / John van Engen

Sources for monasticism in the long twelfth century / Lauren Mancia

Hermitism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Kathryn L. Jasper and John Howe

Monastic theologies c. 1050-1200 / Constant J. Mews

Monastic preaching and the sermon in medieval Latin Christendom to the twelfth century / Timothy M. Baker and Beverly Kienzle

The Mass in monastic practice : nuns and ordained monks, c. 400-1200 / Fiona Griffiths

Reclusion in the Middle Ages / Paulette L'Hermite-Leclercq

Similarities and differences between monks and regular canons in the twelfth century / Ursula Vones-Liebenstein

The institutionalization of religious orders (12th-13th c.) / Gert Melville

Gender and monastic liturgy in the Latin West (high and late Middle Ages) / Gisela Muschiol

Monastic landscapes / Hedwig Rockelein

Later monastic economies / Constance Berman

Nobility and monastic patronage : the view from outside the monastery / Jonathan Lyon

The medical role of monasteries in the Latin west, c. 1050-1300 / Elma Brenner

East-central European monasticism : between East and West? / Emilia Jamroziak

Monasticism, colonization and ethnic tension in late medieval Ireland / Colman O Clabaigh

Part II. The Carolingians to the eleventh century: The historiography of central medieval western monasticism / Felice Lifshitz

Sources for the history of monasticism in the central Middle Ages (c. 800-1100) / Scott Bruce

Questions of monastic identity in medieval southern Italy and Sicily (c. 500-1200) / Valerie Ramseyer

Discerning "reform" in monastic liturgy (c. 750-1050) / Jesse Billett

Monasticism, reform and authority in the Carolingian Era / Rutger Kramer

Carolingian monastic schools and reform / John Contreni

Monastic economics in the Carolingian Age / Jean-Pierre Devroey

Missions on the northern and eastern frontiers, c. 700-1100 / Janneke Raaijmakers

Minsters and monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England / Christopher Andrew Jones

Monastic art and architecture, c. 700-1100 : material and immaterial worlds / Adam Cohen

Monastic daily life (c. 750-1100) : a tight community shielded by an outer court / Isabelle Cochelin

The double monastery as an historiographical problem (4th-12th c.) / Alison Beach and Andra Juganaru

Interactions between monks and the lay nobility (from the Carolingian Era through the eleventh century) / Isabelle Rose

Monastic reform in the tenth to early twelfth century / Steven Vanderputten

Monastic canon law in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries / Christof Rolker

Eastern influence on western monasticism, 850-1050 / John Howe

Monasticism and religious orders > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monasticism and religious orders > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.