Title: With greater liberty : a short history of Christian monasticism and religious orders /
Authors: Frank, Suso.; Lienhard, Joseph T.,; Lienhard, Joseph T.
Publisher: Cistercian Publications,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders History.
Contents: From Christian asceticism to Christian monasticism -- Early forms of eastern monasticism -- The beginnings of monasticism in the West -- Dominance of the Rule of Saint Benedict -- The new orders of the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- The mendicant orders -- The monastery in the late Middle Ages -- Monasticism in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- The monastery between revolution and restoration -- Recent past and present -- Monasticism in the Orthodox churches.