HUMANITIES
4930-901/6939-901
MONASTICISM AND THE ARTS
Wednesday, 6-9 PM, CPR 355
JAMES D'EMILIO
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES
CPR 382/phone:
974-9404/demilio@shell.cas.usf.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 1-3 (or by
appointment)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (in
progress, last updated, Feb.5, 2006)
GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS, SURVEYS: MONASTICISM
Dunn, Marilyn. The emergence of
monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the early Middle Ages.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. BR195.M65 D86 2000.
Lawrence, C. H. Medieval
monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle
Ages. New York: Longman, 2001. BX2470.L39 2001
GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS, SURVEYS:
MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND THE CHURCH
-Brown, Peter R. L. The rise of
western Christendom: triumph and diversity, A.D. 200-1000.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. BR162.3.B76 2003.
GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS
-art and architecture
Turner, Jane (ed.). The
dictionary
of art, 34 vols. (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996) N31.D5
1996 (Tampa
and St. Pete, reference, also
available online
through the USF library as Grove Art Online)
-late antiquity
Bowerstock, G.W., Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar (editors). Late antiquity: a guide to the
postclassical world. Cambridge, Ma.: Belknap Press of Harvard
UP, 1999. DE5.L29 1999 (also at St. Pete)
-medieval history
English, Edward D. Encyclopedia
of
the medieval world, 2 vols. (New York: Facts on File, 2005)
D114.E55 2005 (reference)
Frassetto, Michael. Encyclopedia of
barbarian Europe: society in transformation (Santa Barbara:
ABC-CLIO, 2003) D135.F73 2003 (reference)
Vauchez, Andre et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia
of
the Middle Ages, 2 vols. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000)
D114.E54 2000 (Tampa and St. Pete, reference)
McKitterick, Rosamond (ed.). The New
Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
D117.N48 1995 (also available in non-circulating reference at St. Pete)
Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary
of
the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Scribner, 1982-89)
D114.D5 1982 (Tampa and St. Pete, reference)
-religion
Encyclopedia
of religion, 15 vols. (Detroit: Macmillan, 2005) BL31.E46 2005
(reference)
New
Catholic encyclopedia, 15 vols. (Washington D.C., Catholic U of
America, 2003) BX841.N44 2003 (Tampa and St. Pete, reference, also available on-line
through the USF library)
MONASTIC TEXTS
-early Christian
Palladius. The Lausiac History.
Translated and annotated by Robert T. Meyer. Westminster, Md., 1965.
BR60.A35 no. 34.
Ward, Benedicta (translator). The
sayings of the desert fathers: the alphabetic collection.
Kalamazoo: Cistercian publications, 1975. BR60.A572 1975.
Evagrius Ponticus. Ad monachos.
Translated by Jeremy Driscoll. New York: Newman Press, 2003.
BX2435.D755 2003.
John Cassian. The conferences.
New York: the Paulist Press, 1997. BR65.C33 1997.
John Cassian. The institutes.
New York: Newman Press, 2000. BR60.A35 no. 58.
-anthologies of saints' lives
Early Christian lives. London:
Penguin, 1998. BR1710.E37 1998.
Vivian, Tim (translator). Journeying
into God: seven early monastic lives. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1996. BR1710.J65 1996.
Holy women of the Syrian Orient.
Introduced and translated by Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook
Harvey. Berkeley: U California P, 1987. BR1713.H625 1987. (updated version is available on-line
through the USF library)
THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Bagnall, Roger S. Egypt in
late antiquity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. DT93.B33 1993.
Cameron, Averil. The Mediterranean
world in late antiquity, AD 395-600. London: Routledge, 1993.
DE71.C25 1993
Herrin, Judith. The formation of
Christendom. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987. BR232.H47 1987 (only
at St. Pete)
Brown, Peter R. L. The world of late
antiquity, AD 150-750. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1974. DG77.B73 (also at St. Pete)
EARLY MONASTICISM AND ITS CONTEXT
Caner, Daniel. Wandering, begging
monks: spiritual authority and the promotion of monasticism in late
antiquity. Berkeley: U California P, 2002. BR195.M65 C36
2002 (also available on-line through USF library)
Krawiec, Rebecca. Shenoute and the
women of the White Monastery: Egyptian monasticism in late antiquity.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. BR1720.S48 K73 2002.
Davis, Stephen J. The cult of Saint
Thecla: a tradition of women's piety in late antiquity. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2001. BR1720.T33 D38 2001.
Frank, Georgia. The memory of the
eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity.
Berkeley: U California P, 2000. BR190.H573 F73 2000 (also available
on-line through USF library)
Goehring, James. Ascetics, society
and the desert: studies in Egyptian monasticism. Harrisburg, PA,
1999. BR190.G64 1999.
Brown, Peter. “The rise and function of holy man in late antiquity,
1971-1997,” Journal of early
Christian studies 6 (1998), 353-76. (Periodicals: BR66.J68, also
available on-line)
Coon, Lynda L. Sacred fictions: holy
women and hagiography in late antiquity. Philadelphia: U Penn P,
1997. BR195.W6 C66 1997.
Rubenson, Samuel. The letters of St.
Antony: monasticism and the making of a saint. Minneapolis:
Fortress press, 1995. BR65.A3573 A4 1995.
Binns, John. Ascetics and
ambassadors of Christ: the monasteries of Palestine, 314-631.
BR185.B56 1994.
Rousseau, Philip. Basil of Caesarea.
Berkeley: U California Press, 1994. BR1720.B3 R68 1994.
Gould, Graham. The desert fathers on
monastic community. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. BX2465.G68
1993.
Brown, Peter. The body and society:
men, women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity. New
York: Columbia UP, 1988. BT708.B77 1998 (also at St. Pete: BR195.C45
B76 1988, and available on-line
through USF library)
Brown, Peter. “The saint as exemplar in late antiquity,” Representations 1 (1983), 1-25.
(Periodicals: NX1.R46, also available on-line)
Brown, Peter. The cult of the
saints: its rise and function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: U.
Chicago P, 1981. BX2333.B74 (also at St. Pete)
Rousseau, Philip. Ascetics,
authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978. BV5023.R68 (also at St. Pete)
Chitty, Derwas James. The desert a
city: an introduction to the study of Egyptian and Palestinian
monasticism under the Christian Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.
BX2465.C45
-John Cassian
Stewart, Columba. Cassian the monk.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. BR65.C33 S74.1998
Chadwick, Owen. John Cassian.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1968. BR1720.C3 C47 1968
THE CULTURES OF CELTIC AND ANGLO-SAXON
MONASTICISM IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Charles-Edwards, T.M. Early
Christian Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. BR792 .C43
2000 (also available on-line through USF library)
Clancy, Thomas Owen and Gilbert Markus. Iona: the earliest poetry of a Celtic
monastery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1995. PB1647.I6 C53 1995
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. Early medieval Ireland, 400-1200.
London: Longman, 1995. DA930 .O2 1995
Gray, P.T.R. and M. W. Herren. “Columbanus and the Three Chapters
controversy: a new approach”, Journal
of theological studies, n.s. 45 (1994), 160-70. (available
on-line through USF library)
Bullough, D. “What has Ingeld to do with Lindisfarne”, Anglo-Saxon England 22 (1993),
93-126. DA152.2 .A75 (also at St. Pete)
Cassidy, Brendan (ed.). The Ruthwell
Cross: papers from the colloquium sponsored by the Index of Christian
Art, Princeton University, 8 December 1989. Princeton: Dept. of
Art and Archaeology, 1992. CC315.5 .R86 1992
Bitel, Lisa M. Isle of the
saints: monastic settlement and Christian community in early Ireland.
Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. BX2600 .B57 1990 (also at St. Pete)
Clayton, Mary. The cult of the
Virgin in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
BT652.E54 C57 1990 (USF library copy lost?)
Edwards, Nancy. The archaeology of
early medieval Ireland. Philadelphia: U Penn P, 1990. DA930 .E38
1990
Horn, Walter W. The forgotten
hermitage of Skellig Michael. Berkeley: U California P, 1990.
BX2602.S54 H67 1990
Raw, Barbara C. Anglo-Saxon
crucifixion iconography and the art of the monastic revival.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. N6763 .R38 1990
Bonner, Gerald, David Rollason and Clare Stancliffe (eds.). St. Cuthbert, his cult and his community
to AD 1200. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989. BX4700.C8 S7
1989
Herbert, Maire. Iona, Kells, and
Derry: the history and historiography of the monastic family of Columba.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. BX2600 .H47 1988
Hughes, Kathleen. Church and society
in Ireland, A.D. 400-1200. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
BR794 .H79 1987
Haney, K.E. “The Christ and the Beasts panel on the Ruthwell Cross”, Anglo-Saxon England 14 (1985),
215-31. DA152.2 .A75
Henderson, George, “The John the Baptist panel on the Ruthwell Cross”, Gesta 24 (1985), 3-12. N6280 .G4
(periodicals)
Curran, Michael. The Antiphonary of
Bangor and the early Irish monastic liturgy. Blackrock: Irish
Academic P, 1984. BX1977.I7 C87 1984
Grabowski, Kathryn. Chronicles and
annals of medieval Ireland and Wales: the Clonmacnoise-group texts.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1984. DA930.5 .G72 1984
Mahler, A.E. “Lignum Domini and the opening vision of the Dream of the
Rood: a viable hypothesis?” Speculum
53 (1978), 441-59. (available on-line through USF library/JSTOR)
Hughes, Kathleen. Early Christian
Ireland: introduction to the sources. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1972.
DA908 .H83 1972 (also at St. Pete)
Fleming, J.V. “The Dream of the Rood and Anglo-Saxon monasticism”, Traditio 22 (1966), 43-72 (not
available at USF)
Schapiro, Meyer. “The religious meaning of the Ruthwell Cross,” Art Bulletin 26 (1944), 232-45.
(available on-line at USF)
Saxl, Fritz. “The Ruthwell Cross”, Journal
of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 6 (1943), 1-19. AS122
.L6 (periodicals/also available on-line through USF library)
THE ARTS OF THE BOOK AND THE SANCTUARY
IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL MONASTERIES OF IRELAND AND BRITAIN
Brown, Michelle P. The Lindisfarne
Gospels: society, spirituality and the scribe. Toronto: U
Toronto P, 2003. ND3359.L5 B769 2003 (also at Sarasota)
Nees, Lawrence, “Reading Aldred’s colophon for the Lindisfarne
Gospels”, Speculum 78 (2003),
333-77. D111 .S6 (periodicals)
Gameson, R. G. “Why did Eadfrith write the Lindisfarne Gospels?”, in Belief and culture in the Middle Ages:
studies presented to Henry Mayr-Harting, ed. R. Gameson and H.
Leyser (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), 45-58. BR252 .B45 2001
Farr, Carol. The Book of Kells, its
function and audience. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1997. ND3359.K4 F37
1997
O’Mahony, Felicity (ed.). The Book
of Kells: proceedings of a conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 6-9
September 1992 (Dublin: Scolar Press, 1994). ND3359.K4 B66 1994
Dumville, David N. English caroline
script and monastic history, studies in Benedictinism, AD 950-1030.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993. DA152 .D84 1993
Werner, M. “The cross-carpet page in the Book of Durrow: the cult of
the true cross, Adomnan, and Iona”, Art
Bulletin 72 (1990), 174-223. (available on-line at USF)
Youngs, Susan (ed.). The work of
angels: masterpieces of Celtic metalwork, 6th - 9th centuries A.D.
Austin: U Texas P, 1990. NK6446 .W67 1990
Guilmain, J. “The geometry of the cross-carpet pages in the Lindisfarne
Gospels”, Speculum 62 (1987),
21-52. (available on-line through USF library/JSTOR)
Backhouse, Janet. The Lindisfarne
Gospels. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981. ND3359.L5 B3 1981 (Sarasota
only)
Alexander, Jonathan J. G. Insular
manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century. London: Harvey Miller,
1978. ND3128 .K35 v.1
Nordenfalk, Carl. Celtic and
Anglo-Saxon painting: book illumination in the British Isles, 600-800.
New York: Braziller, 1977. ND2940 .N67 1977
Temple, Elzbieta. Anglo-Saxon
manuscripts, 900-1066. London: Harvey Miller, 1976. ND3128 .K35
v.2 (also at St. Pete)
GENERAL STUDIES ON EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Henderson, George. Vision and image
in early Christian England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
N7943.A1 H46 1999
Backhouse, Janet. The making of
England: Anglo-Saxon art and culture, 600-900. Toronto: U
Toronto P, 1991. DA152.2 .M34 1991
Backhouse, Janet, D. H. Turner and L. Webster (eds.). The golden age of Anglo-Saxon art, 966-1066.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985. N6763 .G65 1985
Wilson, David. Anglo-Saxon art from
the seventh century to the Norman conquest. Woodstock: Overlook
Press, 1984. N6763 .W55 1984
Dodwell, C. R. Anglo-Saxon art: a
new perspective. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982. N6763 .D62 1982
THE CISTERCIANS AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE
Kinder, Terryl N. Cistercian Europe:
architecture of contemplation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B.
Eerdmans, 2002. NA4828 .K56 2002 (also at St. Pete)
McGuire, Brian Patrick. Friendship
and faith: Cistercian men, women and their stories, 1100-1250.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. BX3406.A2 M37 2002
Cassidy-Welch, Megan. Monastic
spaces and their meanings: thirteenth-century English Cistercian
monasteries. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. BX3416 .C37 2001 (only at
St. Pete)
Berman, Constance. The Cistercian
evolution: the invention of a religious order in twelfth-century Europe.
Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 2000. BX3431 .B46 2000
Kinder, Terryl N. Architecture of
silence: Cistercian abbeys of France. New York: Abrams, 2000.
TR659 .H42 2000
Berman, Constance. “Were there twelfth-century Cistercian nuns?” Church History 68 (1999), 824-64.
BR1 .C55 (periodicals, also available on-line through USF/JSTOR)
Fergusson, Peter. Rievaulx Abbey:
community, architecture, memory. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
NA5471.R54 F47 1999 (also at St. Pete)
Rudolph, Conrad. Violence and daily
life: reading, art, and polemics in the Citeaux Moralia in Job.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. ND3385.G74 R84 1997
Bredero, Adriaan Hendrik. Bernard of
Clairvaux: between cult and history. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B.
Eerdmans, 1996. BX4705.B5 B813 1996
Newman, Martha. The boundaries of
charity: Cistercian culture and ecclesiastical reform 1098-1180.
Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. BX3415 .N48 1996
Gervers, Michael (ed.). The Second
Crusade and the Cistercians. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
D162.2 .S43 1992
Alfonso, Isabel. “Cistercians and feudalism”, Past and Present 133 (1991), 3-30.
(available on-line through USF/JSTOR)
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Holy
entrepreneurs: Cistercians, knights and economic exchange in
twelfth-century Burgundy. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991. (on order at
Sarasota library)
Rudolph, Conrad. The “things of
greater importance”: Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the medieval
attitude toward art. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1990. N7850
.R8 1990 (also at St. Pete)
Stalley, Roger A. The Cistercian
monasteries of Ireland: an account of the history, art, and
architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142-1540. New
Haven: Yale UP, 1987. N6784 .S73 1987
Berman, Constance. Medieval
agriculture, the Southern French countryside, and the early
Cistercians: a study of forty-three monasteries. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 1986. AS36 .A5 n.s., v.76, pt.5
Norton, Christopher and David Park (eds.). Cistercian art and architecture in the
British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. N7943 .C57 1986
Fergusson, Peter. Architecture of
solitude: Cistercian abbeys in twelfth-century England.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984. NA5463 .F4 1984
Panagapoulos, Beata Maria. Cistercian
and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece. Chicago: U Chicago
P, 1979. NA5593 .P36
Donkin, R.A. The Cistercians:
studies in the geography of medieval England and Wales. Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1978. BX3416 .D66
Lekai, Louis J. The Cistercians:
ideal and reality. Kent: Kent State UP, 1977. BX3402.2 .L44
(Sarasota only)
Hill, Bennett D. English Cistercian
monasteries and their patrons. Urbana: U Illinois P, 1968.
BX3416 .H5
WEB RESOURCES
-Hill Museum and Manuscript
Library, St. Johns University (Collegeville, Minnesota)
-Monastic Matrix: a
scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from
400 to 1600 CE