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

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